In the ballroom of the student center, Melissa Howard from MTV's, The Real World, spoke on behalf of the Ball State art department. She did speak, but her speaking skills were not the greatest. To start off her speech she did not start out with the normal attention getter that most would expect. She simply said, "Congratulations to all of the winners tonight, now I guess I'm here to entertain you." I didn't think that was the greatest approach to beginning a speech. In fact, she really didn't have much of a speech. It was mostly her just answering questions about her past experiences on the show. She did have a lot of interesting things to say, but it was not quite a speech, it was more of a discussion with the audience. One positive that Melissa did have was that she had done some comedic stand up, so she was very comfortable speaking around people, and there were some funny things that she had to say. Although there were many good things that she had to say, there was no real structure to her speaking. She did not seem to follow any sort of guidelines for her speech. It was mainly a go with the flow sort of thing. Even at the end of the night, she did not have any sort of wrap up or conclusion. The discussion basically ended, and people clapped, and then she left. I was looking forward to seeing someone that was on the show to hear what they had to say, but I wasn't wanting to sit and listen to question and answer sessions all night. Overall, I was not really that pleased with the speech.
