Club100.The Diary Game: The Defense of @echamroland

Hi there!!! Trust you are all doing great. The long awaited defense is here. You will not want to miss this occasion. I therefore welcome you to my defense Presentation which took place on 13th of October 2022.

MORNING

At About 5pm on the 12th of October 2022, I was informed via a communique that i will be defending the Next day at 11am. what a supprise. Lucky enough I was ready for whatever they wanted.

I went through my work again touching the most sensitive parts like the background,the Problem statement, The objectives, The research methodology,
The significance of the study, The Main findings and The recommendations.

I did all this not because I did not know but I wanted to remind myself of the presentation. When i was done, I prepared myself for the presentation by setting time and presenting within the scope of 10minutes. I was going to present for 15minutes but I was training myself to finish in Time and not to waste much time.
At first I presented for 15minutes.
I did the presentation again and it was for 13minutes and finally i did the presentation for 11minutes and that was all to worry about.

I slept off and by 4am, I could not sleep. I had my online course to attend. The session ended at 5am and I went back to Bed. I slept until 8:30am. I received a call from school that i was expected to be in school at 9am and that my presentation was to be at 10am instead. I hurriedly took a bath and went to school.

I arrived just in time for the presentation.

I Was Presenting on "Military Might and the protection of national interest in Cameroon"

It was a slippery ground and I had to be very careful or better still, I had to chew my words well before vomiting them. This is because security officers were present to witness the defense presentation and worst of all I was being examined by A military man and my president of the Jury was a Lecturer at EMIA a military academy.

Before I began my presentation, He asked if I was a military man and my answer was NO. why then did you dare into this slipery topic? A topic which can implicate you He asked.

ready for the presentation
My response was someone has to dare for the betterment of our nation Cameroon.
I was then given the floor to present.

I was given 15minutes to present and my presentation took me 13minutes. Perfect and straight to the point.
I knew my jury and so I had prepared well for them.

In The words of the president of the Jury " This is the best defense presentation I have witnessed in the Faculty of Law and Political science. We have really wasted this presentation. We were supposed to invite Visitors from Soa and Dschang To come and enjoy this presentation and also to make them know that we are doing our jobs"

my supervisor

I smiled broadly but could not smile for long because of the questions that are loading. I made my presentation perfect so much so that all the possible Questions had been answered in the course of the presentation.

The examiner had little or nothing to examine me on. He only complained of a few foot notes that were not complete.

my examiner in white
It's time for the proclamation of Results. I knew my grade already but I am not on the jury. They might have something in mind but I was convinced.

waiting for results proclamation

After deliberations, Everyone was asked to come in. This is the tradition. Everyone stood up and the results was proclaimed. 4/4 gpa or better still I was awarded the grade of excellence.

Me and my Jury after the presentation
The remarks included that I publish portions of my project and that is the Beginning of the professorship race.

AFTERNOON

snapshots after the event

Usually, after the defense, candidates appreciate their jury with whatever way they can. after sharing the wine I bought, I was asked to stay around by one of the professors. I waited up to 4pm before leaving.

EVENING

I left Campus to go and meet those who came to witness my defense. We sat at ENS STREET to share a bottle of beer each. It was a cool gathering.

drinking away the stress
It was a long evening as we ended up drinking up to 11pm.

Thanks for Reading.