Celebrating Failure

This semester has been a tough one. I am a person who is involved but always keep my academics first before anything else. This semester was hard to balance that, especially since I am taking even hard courses as I go on through my journey here at UF. I had to drop a class this semester. It was not due to not knowing the material, but performing bad on the exams. That was due to having my volunteering for Shands on Wednesdays before my exams for that class. Shands is a very competitive programs to get into and stay in, which is why I could not miss volunteering the days of my exams. My volunteering was a 20 minute drive from campus and from 8:30 am to 11:30 am and my exam time was at 12:50 pm. My biggest failure was time management and not moving around my volunteering to avoid performing bad on the day of exams.
I learned that it is okay to drop a class, because you will know better for next time you take it.
Failure is definitely embarrassing and not something I feel like sharing with people. I learned that I am human and that humans make mistakes. Clearly, I know that this will never happen again because I never want to feel embarrassed from sharing how I am doing in school. This is a learning experience so I can learn more about myself and how to balance failure and success. Although, this class is very difficult and lots of my friends have also dropped it, this class has shown me that I can take risks for the better.

Week 13 Reading Reflection

1) What was the biggest surprise for you in the reading? In other words, what did you read that stood out the most as different from your expectations? 

The biggest surprise in this chapter was the amount of planning and time it takes for managing entrepreneur growth. I never knew there were life cycles for managing them. 

2) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.

In this chapter, nothing really was confusing to me. I understood everything discussed.

3) If you were able to ask two questions to the author, what would you ask? Why?
One question I would ask the author is what type of tips would he give entrepreneurs for keeping their time manageable? The second question I would ask the author is why innovation is so important in the entrepreneur world?  

4) Was there anything you think the author was wrong about? Where do you disagree with what she or he said? How?

In this chapter, I do not disagree nor think the author is wrong about anything mentioned in this chapter.