Halfway Reflection

This course has already taught me a great deal about how to become an entrepreneur. Not only in the material I have learned but also the behaviors I have adopted. To keep up with this class, I have gotten into the habit of laying by the pool on Thursday afternoons and grinding out my assignments for the week. I have found it helps me focus and gets my creative juices flowing when I am outside surrounded by nature. I have also found myself looking for "bugs" at times in my daily life. This is a good step in becoming an entrepreneur.

I definitely felt like giving up after missing a noon deadline for the first set of peer reviews. I am used to midnight deadlines so I was devastated when i realized I had missed the assignments and therefore lost 4% of my final grade. There is no worse feeling than inadvertently missing a deadline. However instead of letting that mistake snowball I showed tenacity by making sure I didn't miss another deadline.

Three tips to next year's students:

• Do not purposely skip assignments. It is very easy to excel in this class if you keep up with all of the work. If you skip assignments you are not only building bad habits but you aren't leaving yourself room for mistakes (like missing a deadline accidentally).

• Do not overthink your ideas. The point of this class is to flesh out your thoughts, there is no right or wrong. Completely open yourself up and allow your ideas to run free.

• If you actually want to be an entrepreneur, adopt the things you learn immediately. Start making your own bug lists, writing out potential business plans, and interviewing potential customers. If you aren't willing to start practicing those things outside of class, it is unlikely that you will make it as an entrepreneur.