Err.. So what is your name?

How come visiting lecturers don't introduce themselves first thing at a lecture ?

So we are going to this lecture, and we wonder who this guy is, what's his name. But instead of having answers to these questions we hear a detail description of his lifetime of achievements, leaving us yet pondering..err sir, so whats your name? (fault at our part- we don't ask him either, which we should do the next time)

There are two ways in which we come to musing over this Million Dollar( Rupees in SL) question.

1. Five minutes in to the lecture, we realize that its dead boring. Nine in the morning, a small neutral voice, with no expressions, speaking away. An excellent combination for us to doze off! So we are like Who Is This Boring Guy?! My friend turns to me, saying "Kill me! this lecture is beyond boring!

2. The type that screams 'Wake Up!' with their lively facial expressions, voluminous voice and Energized hand movements. He tell us an interesting story, gets us thinking that the lecture is worth listening to. Then we speculate, Gosh! Who Is This Guy? He rocks! Naive and pessimistic as we are, we come into the Auditorium dreading the thought of enduring a 3 hour sermon. Only a spirited lecturer can erase those ideas.

But I'm not talking about that. This Blog is about lecturers not introducing themselves, lively or not. Half the time we leave without knowing their names. Or luckily we see there names in the slid show or in handouts(which we don't get half the time). Some write their name and contact number on the white board before they leave( Hello!? Its essential that we know the name at the beginning! It completes the picture and makes it easier to listen to someone with a name!)

It disturbing to hear them mumble their names and for us to walk out at the end of it all, knowing the entire CV of Mr.Mumble's (Mrs or Ms.) instead of their name.

I wrote this while at a lecture, conducted by an accomplished middle aged man, who mumbled his name and droned for 3 hours monotonously about, god know what. "Kill me", my friend says again as we both wonder for the umpteenth time who this guy is, trying not to drown ourselves in this grey sunshine.....

P.S- Any Blogger/Lecturer's (or who are in the prospect of becoming a lecturer) reading this,( not many I know) please keep in mind to say your names properly even if you hate it.Thank You.