1. One of the courses I am enrolled in this semester is Employee Communications. Earlier this semester, I had a case study project due in that class, where I was assigned to work with two other students and complete a case study presentation on an internal communications case in public relations. We had to submit our final assignment as a PowerPoint with audio included. One of my groupmates agreed to send in the project, and she submitted it the minute before it was due (the project was due at 11 p.m.). Right after, she noticed that the audio for the PowerPoint did not go through. I immediately went to my computer and noticed she was right. She emailed our professor the next morning explaining she made a mistake submitting the project, and our professor allowed us to resubmit it! I spent an hour on the phone with my groupmate that day trying to fix the sound on the PowerPoint, and my solution worked! The long story short is that our professor advised me to submit the PowerPoint because all of the audio ended up working on my computer, and she could hear the second version of the presentation. The second best part is that my group got an 87 on the project!
2. Although this experience did not directly happen to me, it would have affected my group as a whole if my professor was not as understanding as she was due to the nature of it being a group project. From this experience, I learned two key lessons. First (on a general perspective), it is always a good idea to submit assignments early and make sure all the required components are included. Second (from a personal aspect), I learned that I am a good problem solver. A valuable lesson my father taught me is that cool heads prevail. While I was upset that night, I had a cool head the next morning and quickly identified the issue my group had with the presentation.
3. In general, I do not handle failure well. When I fail, I become upset because I feel like I did not do the best I could. After I process it for a little while, then I feel better. However, I am working on accepting failure. One of the things this class taught me that failure is okay because it is a part of life. When upsetting things happen, I tell myself that if we do not fail, then we will not learn from our mistakes.
Hi Adriana!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog post for this assignment. Experiencing failure is never any great but learning to come to something inevitable like this is valuable. I would agree with you that this class has taught that to us. It's all about learning from those unpleasant experiences and carrying on. I'm really glad to hear that this class is helping with that! Great work!
Hey Adriana,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog post on celebrating failure. All of us at some point or another fail, and that is necessary for all of us to grow into better versions of ourselves. Failing allows us to learn invaluable lessons in order to become successful. I completely understand that dealing with failure is hard and frustrating, as I also struggle with failure personally. I would say that this class highlights the importance of failure in order to grow into sucess. Excellent post!