The experiences I remember the most are the interviews. These were the moments of dread for me, not because I don't like talking to people, but rather because I am aware that people don't like being photographed and recorded my strangers. These were such hard exercises to complete not because of my own hard-work, but rather the need to depend on others for a high grade. People already were shy enough to talk to me, but when they agreed but then learned I had to record them, they would immediately back out. This made all of these assignments very stressful form me.
My favorite post that I am the most proud of is my "Celebrating Failure" post. I enjoyed this amount of reflection and telling myself that it was/is okay to fail. It finally made me believe it.
I think I may slightly be closer to the entrepreneurial mindset, though we have learned in this class that an entrepreneur is not just a mathematician or a business person, I still feel that these are important traits to have, especially after the last couple of readings in the textbook. This makes me still feel a little unsure if I could ever truly be an entrepreneur, but the skills I have developed in this class will nonetheless still be useful throughout my life in other aspects.
My biggest piece of advice is don't be scared of the assignments. In the beginning of this course, I think I was way overthinking on all of the assignments given and thus they became so stressful and scary and I'd really put them off because I didn't understand and was nervous that I would do it wrong. That's not the point of this class. The point of this course is just to try, so that means don't over think on anything, just do. If you think the assignment meant to do this, then just do that! No matter if that was what was intended or not, you'll still learn a lot from just doing that anyways. So don't be shy or scared!
Hi Maxine,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your final reflection! I think you made a lot of good points, especially what you would suggest to future students. I really think that failure and change are some of the biggest things I learned in this course, including when I too was rejected by people I needed to record (that was a bummer). I like that "celebrating failure" was your favorite post because of reflecting. My favorite posts ended up being the customer interviews just because I got a lot of good recommendations and they loved my idea.
I hope you enjoyed this class as much as I did, if you have some extra time check out my final reflection here:
http://plantflourishgrow.blogspot.com/2016/04/final-reflectionending-our-journey.html
Hi I agree with you that the talking to people thing was hard. I guess it’s not talking to them that is but really recording them. It was kind of hard of me to ask people to first patriciate and then say ok now I have to record you. I found that saying it was for school was a good thing because people felt more obligated to go ahead and help me do my assignment. Great work
ReplyDeleteCheck mine out: http://bridgettdavis85.blogspot.com/2016/04/final-reflection.html