I am not sure what day I felt the most traction. Obviously when we have in-class work time I get more done than when we don’t. I wish we had more of that. Especially so we can ask questions as we are working. I feel like more structure in that area would be helpful. Then we can get real-time coaching and receive help on a problem right then and there instead of after the fact which isn’t always helpful. I feel like that would help me more instead of some of the other things we do that I don’t understand how they relate to entrepreneurship like the IDI test (it was cool but I still don’t understand the direct correlation between my venture project and that). The guest speakers help me the most with my personal growth for sure, especially Arathi. (I hope I remembered her name).

The time I felt the most empowered is when I was walking around downtown collecting the prizes from the businesses and talking to them about what would happen on the event day. I felt like the main character like nothing would stand in my way. I was proud of myself at that moment for pulling all these places together and making it actually happen.

The time I felt most challenged this quarter was when we had to work with Western to put on an event. The school works too slowly for this class to use them to put on an event in only three months. It was a lot to ask and especially when the teaching team also wasn’t aware of the challenges we would be facing. It ate up a lot of our time. It was difficult and was really discouraging to have to pivot so many times because of issues with our own school. If we had a whole year we could have made something work but we didn’t so we did the next best thing! (Which worked out really well even with only a few weeks to plan it). That is pretty much the main reason we couldn’t do the other event ideas we wanted to do.

I don’t know what I want to see or know more about in the learning toolkit. I don’t use it very often at all if I am being honest. I think it’s a good recourse but I find that asking other students (when available) is easier and provides clearer quicker answers for me personally.

Overall, I like this class a lot, especially the people! I have made amazing connections with the teaching team and my classmates that I value a lot. I am excited to see how we can make the program even better and less confusing/stressful!

I hope everyone has a great spring break. And speaking of spring… here is my Tula bean in the spring sun to get us ready. Sunny days are on their way!

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• How far would you be willing to walk between scavenging sites? 
  • Keeping it within a mile, mile, and half radius. Otherwise, it will take too long to walk. 
• What would be a good incentive for you to join the event? 
  • I mix of having prizes to find during the hunt. But like something larger at the end like a $25 gift card to somewhere local. 

These were some of our interview questions for our post prototype idea. This is from an interview with my roommate. We learned a lot and got some good feedback about how we could get people to want to come to our event and some of the specifics about it as well. I think they were very successful except maybe not asking people if they would come to our event, that wasn’t the greatest question we came up with. I also think I could have pried a little more or gotten more of an explanation out of my friends especially. Gotten them to be more honest maybe haha.

I feel like next time I am going to ask more questions to get a longer more informative answer out of people. I forgot to do that or simply didn’t want to do that sometimes so that is something I will be working on. I will also be working on talking to random people on campus instead of my go-to people. It can be hard sometimes to motivate myself to do that especially if I don’t make time for it.

What kind of question could replace the question “would you attend _____ event?”

Something extra:

We hosted our event this weekend on Saturday! We had a great turnout and got awesome responses and feedback. People seemed to have a really good time! It made me really happy. I feel like I did a lot for this project and I think it showed. I like event planning more than I thought I would, it was really rewarding.