1. Through this course, I have continued to develop my hard-working behavior. I have always had the ability to buckle down and get work done when my back was against the wall, but I have definitely become a much harder worked in this class. I also think that the constant blog assignments have helped me become a better writer, and the comment feedback has shown me how to improve my work.
2. Soon after choosing my “main idea” that I wanted to focus on in my assignments, I found out how difficult it was going to be to deliver good information based on my choice. So many of the assignments asked for interviews with relevant individuals, and my focus on a social media management service for athletes made it difficult at times to find interview subjects. There was a point where I really just wanted to step away, but I would have never forgiven myself if I would have done so, so I kept trying to move forward. I was able to be creative with my interviews, finding some out of the box subjects, and work harder to find more relevant interview subjects. This is the experience from the semester that has most contributed to my tenaciousness in the class.
3. Tips for next semester’s student:
a. Think ahead: Do not simply be working ahead on your assignments but be thinking ahead in your spare time. The more time you spend preparing, the better your assignments will turn out.
b. Set specific “class times”: With the class existing as more or less as an online only class, you need to set a time throughout the week to work on the class. If you do not, you will fall behind and not want to catch back up.
c. Push yourself: It may sound like a cliché, but if you do not push yourself and your work as far as possible, you will never know all that you are capable of. The harder you work, the more satisfied you will become.
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| Photo used with permission by Kyle Pearce from his website, DIYGenius |
Hello Goetz,
ReplyDeleteI believe that everyone in this class is experiencing the same situations as you are. At the beginning of the class, I thought that I could just work ahead in this class so I could focus on my other classes, but the number of assignments we have each week has made this impossible. In order to succeed in this class, we have to invest a lot of time thinking about our business idea which is something an entrepreneur has to do by its own every single day. In other words, the professor is trying to make us develop an entrepreneurial mindset which is personally something I will always be grateful for.