Coming in I didn’t know what to expect of this class, but I did enjoy it. I liked that there were multiple professors from the department so we always had different perspectives and we were able to get a lot of information. The most important thing That I gained from this class was a reassurance that I can make it. I remember when I started telling my friends and family what my major would be and getting criticized for choosing something that wouldn’t pay off or would take too long to get out into the field, but this class reassured me that there are plenty of opportunities just take them, seek them out, ask questions, and I will be okay and be in a field that makes me happy. There are plenty of small ways to break into the business and it doesn’t just go uphill from there, I will be jumping around in the “ladder” but I will won’t be behind a desk doing some boring paperwork.
Overall it was a good class, but it wasn’t my favorite and I am thankful the the glance into the “real” world that I got. I thought having speakers in was fun, moreso the alumni and guests because the professors a lot of knew about them and they told us about them in their classes. At the beginning of the class I didn’t like the time management tasks and all of that, I don’t think it genuinely helped, not all high schools but some do the same thing and I just happened to take the course to prepare for college and it was much better and when it came to tracking our time, most of us just tracked it and didn’t change anything, we viewed it as a task to write down things we did and then write about what we found, instead of coming to a realization that we may not spend enough time sleeping, or studying. I liked that it was on Mondays, I know shocker, but it was a nice relaxing class to have in the afternoon. I am definitely grateful for the knowledge and the peak into the business side of the world that it gave.