This course has required me to think and expand on ideas like I never have before in any other class. For most classes I have taken, you complete the assignment and move on to the next thing, leaving what you did already in the past, but this class is different. The assignments build on each other and what you wrote about and conducted interviews for in the past are relevant in each forthcoming assignment. This forces me to put all my effort into each assignment and to look back and learn from past blog entries.
2) Tenaciousness is also about attitude. Talk about a moment or two when you felt like "giving up." What pulled you through? Do you feel like you've developed a tenacious attitude during the past two months? What experience or experiences most contributed to this?
I felt like giving up when I had procrastinated on my assignments and had to complete two ENT blog entries after a 9-5 shift at work. Other obligations can make it difficult to complete my assignments early and specifically on this occasion when I came home from a long day at work, I was not motivated to complete two assignments, believing that skipping one or two entries would not hurt my grade too much. But I knew that if I gave in now, it could possibly result in bad habits developing and so I forced myself to sit down and get everything I needed to done and on time. I do believe I have developed a tenacious attitude over the past two months, no matter how busy i get, I always make sure to leave time to watch every single lecture, complete all of my assignments to the best of my ability, and provide helpful feedback on every assignment thus far. Having friends and other peers I know in the class help me complete my tasks because we motivate each other to get our work done and keep up with the lectures.
3) Three tips. What are three tips you would offer next semester's students about (1) fostering the skills that support tenacity and (2) developing the "tenacious mindset"?
To be successful in this class, you have to be determined and motivated to get work done that is accurate and done with effort. It can be easy to cut corners, publish the bare minimum, or not conduct proper interviews, but you are only doing a disservice to yourself. Do all the required work if you want to get the most out of the class.
Your mindset should be focused on the big picture more so than just the individual assignment. Each assignment is meant to develop research and entrepreneurial skills and once you have done a certain amount of assignments, including the ones that require you to expand upon an entrepreneurial idea, you will begin to see the skills you have learned overtime, that you don't notice when just typing up your individual entries.
Don't let the lack of exams fool you into thinking this is just a course you can blow off and not focus on. Take advantage of the skills being taught to you and try to study them, not for some exam, but because they are useful in your everyday life.
