TED presentations

Meh. I am someone who sees the "ideal" goal of something even if it is not met, and thus sees the worth in said project or means to get to that goal. So, I give TED a little break. Even though we do not do any giant service projects or anyhting that they advocate in TED, and we only talk abou them to OTHER people we know won't get involved. But I see where that doesn't matter. We are becoming more worldly educated. We are growing optimists out of a pool of know-it-all pessimists. THIS is something I greatly approve of, and the fact that we are enlightening our youth to see that where there looks like there is no light, no solution, there are always those who take it upon themselves to come out of left field and do somehhing great.
No no matter that TED was almost impoossible given varying amounts of effort by different people. No matter that some of the presentations came out scratchy and unpracticed. They happened, and although we didn;t save the livess of many people on those minutes, we fostered the possibility for that in the future.
Even though "collaborating" over the internet seems overrated, we now have even MORE experience doing so, and it won't be so much of a hassle in the future.
Even though it wasn't carried out very well by the teachers in terms of work load assigned, thatw as another "hard knock life" situation of school we lived through that, without having endured, we'd be a bunch of kids who always get what they want and believe that school should be entirely convenient. (*note: academy kids still act like this should be the case and that they're being deprived of their "privileges")

All in all, this shows that one may always try to make things perfect, but ghosts in the machine may always be there. HOWEVER, that doesn't have to matter. With determined individuals, and individuals who can find the positive in any experience, those ghosts might as well not exist, and that's why the TED people are here on this earth. And that is why some of us academites are meant to become them, after learning from this project, in our own little ways.