I'm not going to lie, at the start of the semester I was pretty jazzed about this class being blog-based because I love using my technical and creative skills. After putting all of the *many* due dates into my iCal, I started out pretty high strong with my first couple of blog posts. I found the material to be very engaging and interesting and I was determined to never miss an assignment. Then life happened. I found myself doing the assignments last minute because of my 18 credit work load, plus my university involvement and on-campus job. That didn't work out in my favor when there were assignments due that involved videos or interviews with other people. However, overall I did the best I could and now I can spell entrepreneurship without using spellcheck!
My most joyous experience with this class was realizing I knew an entrepreneur all along! One of our first assignments was to interview an entrepreneur and I was absolutely stumped. I sincerely thought I didn't know anyone who classifies themselves as an entrepreneur. Then, as I was sitting at my desk at work, it hit me. An entrepreneur was sitting not but four feet away from me: my supervisor! I had a wonderful, enriching experience interviewing my supervisor who started his own storytelling video production company and he was more than excited to be the interviewee!
I don't really see myself as an entrepreneur. I definitely can get into the entrepreneur mindset of cultivating new ideas and figuring out ways to implement them effectively. However, I can say that I now have a new level of respect for entrepreneurs! Entrepreneurs are creative and intelligent individuals who want to make the world a better place.
For future students taking this course: BE MINDFUL OF THE DUE DATES AND WHAT EACH ASSIGNMENT ENTAILS. Also, make your blog look really snazzy -- it's not that hard. Have fun, be creative, and make time for this course! It's very beneficial.
Thank you for a great semester!
I felt that this class was an experience with many highs and lows. But then again, life is like that to, and we had to tackle this class head on and focus on doing the assignments correctly at the proper due date. I felt that this class got challenging as the weeks went by, especially when I had to study for classes I put way more importance of besides this class. It seems that you handled yourself well and did a majority of the assignments. I hope you enjoyed your journey through this course. Good luck with everything in the future. Here is my post if you want to check it out http://stefanent3003.blogspot.com/2016/04/final-reflection.html
ReplyDeleteI agree 100% with the two of you. I feel like this class might have been 2x easier if the deadlines for the assignments were midnight instead of 9 PM. So many times I wasn't able to submit an assignment on time because I was at work or studying. It's definitely a class you have to plan ahead for or else you end up with 30 minutes to get 5 videos of idea comments. I think you made an honest final reflection and commend you for that. I didn't get this assignment done but check out my blog here:
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Hey Erica,
ReplyDeleteI am so proud that you started off strong using a calender. I struggled in this portion of the course. I really did not enjoy turing assignments every other day at an early time as well as having to find people to interview at a timely manner. But you know: C'est la vie. It is good to hear that you found yourself to have grown exponentially as an entreprenuer.
Here's my link http://rdavidshay3.blogspot.com/2016/04/final-reflection.html