30A- Final Reflection
What sticks out to me the most as a formative experience in this class was missing my deadline the second week because I assumed that this class had normal deadlines like many of my other classes. Instead of being due at 11:59PM, it was due in the middle of the day and I misread that time.
The experience that I'll remember years later from this class is the assignment where I had to interview my friends and learn some of my most unique and special qualities. This is an assignment that I will definitely cherish for a long time coming forward. This was also my most joyous experience because it made me very happy to learn how highly my friends think of me. I think that I was most proud of my venture concept from this class over anything else that I have created because I was able to firm up a lot of my ideas.
I definitely do see myself as an entrepreneur more now than ever. I try to look at the world in a different way than how I did when the semester started. Now, I try to look for as many opportunities as possible to get ahead and see where there are problems in the world and whether or not I have the capability to fix them.
One recommendation that I would make to the students who are going to take this class in the future would be to think about something that you are passionate about because you would be a consumer of a product, not just something you are passionate about. Also, I would say it is important to pay attention to deadlines and not to assume things. I think to perform best in this course they should consider working ahead as soon as possible and making sure that they are able to get interviews and look ahead to what they will be doing in the future. To foster this mindset, I would suggest that they set a calendar up so that they are given notifications about assignments in the future very early on so that they can see that they need to look at them. If they know what assignment is coming up, they may be more inclined to reach out to friends and peers for those interviews and be more prepared when they arrive.
Kelsey,
ReplyDeleteI could not agree more with you on your statement how you see the world in a different way than before taking this class. I have so many new ideas of what could be done to make businesses better and even in the process of creating one myself. I recommended the same piece of advice in picking something you are passionate about because it makes the class way easier and the posts interesting to work on. I enjoyed this class and Im sure many others did.