Sophomore Reflection

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by Ryan McFarland12 views·Updated May 31, 2021
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  1. Hi, I'm Ryan Mcfarland and I am currently a sophomore
  2. at Phillip J.
  3. Pitino School of entrepreneurs, you might be wondering what does
  4. this even about?
  5. Well, I've got your answer, this is a reflection of
  6. my year at Patina.
  7. Throughout this year there's been a number of challenges, most
  8. being the major shift from education in the classroom, education
  9. through a screen.
  10. The disastrous pandemic was of course, the reason behind this
  11. major shift because of this going back to school was
  12. to say the least odd.
  13. Not being able to learn inside the classroom, surrounded by
  14. students learning and striving for better is much different than
  15. this taking place at your own home.
  16. The level of collaboration decreases.
  17. The connection during, in person learning is just much different.
  18. But obviously you always have to persevere this time in
  19. my life reminds me of a quote phone of my
  20. favorite movies, Good will hunting that says you'll have bad
  21. times, but that will always wake you up to the
  22. good stuff you weren't paying attention to.
  23. This quote truly expresses through perseverance.
  24. I made the best out of this school year that
  25. I possibly could and I really connect to this quote
  26. right throughout my client internship.
  27. I had done a lot of collaboration in many ways
  28. this year and my on my marketing class, we worked
  29. with real clients and in teams as students during an
  30. internship. Oh the link that you see is the website
  31. that my team, the freethinkers created for our client, big
  32. nasty detail.
  33. This photo is of the section I created from my
  34. website for the website.
  35. I contributed to my team success as the communicator in
  36. a number of ways, communicating with the client through Asana,
  37. keeping up to date with meeting times and what is
  38. needed and making sure my team and the client is
  39. 100% ready, ensure that they know when those meetings will
  40. be and how to get to them, Making sure that
  41. my team can communicate together well and without any issues
  42. and if there is any problems between my team or
  43. the client um or issues or needs or anything that
  44. I will talk to the teacher and inform him about
  45. them. I've gained many skills throughout the plant internship.
  46. Mhm. The new skills that I have learned during this
  47. process are we have designed ins and outs learning html.
  48. Learning how to stylized and design a website based off
  49. of certain brands.
  50. And I had a very fun time being creative and
  51. really be able to learn how to do this for
  52. the first time and something I would always wanted to
  53. learn how to do um and communicating and working with
  54. a real client.
  55. This was a very interesting and fun new way to
  56. learn and it gave me a real life experience that
  57. I had never had before, and that was very grateful
  58. for it.
  59. Um Learning to navigate functioning client team relationship and the
  60. ins and outs of that email marketing basics through mail
  61. chimp and working in Wordpress into L.
  62. A. Mentor um That was very fun to challenging at
  63. first to navigate, but ultimately fun and good to learn
  64. how um I can use that platform to possibly be
  65. creative and for possible my business in the future.
  66. Uh and managing how a team communicates.
  67. My mindset as an entrepreneur has grown in many ways.
  68. Throughout this school year, I have learned how to be
  69. flexible and ready for a change as a result of
  70. pandemic, learning, Navigating new ways of learning this year, every
  71. class helped me grow in many therefore ways in history.
  72. We actually were able to use Minecraft, the student version
  73. school version of Minecraft to build a battle, a World
  74. War One battle.
  75. So we each team, we got put into teams and
  76. we each cut, um, we were able to pick a
  77. battle from World War One that we wanted to do.
  78. And in this, with this battle, we had to go
  79. into a Minecraft World and create from scratch a, uh,
  80. this battle and show different soldiers and the captains and
  81. the weather and the terrain and everything and everything had
  82. to look like the battle.
  83. And then we had to write a script and we
  84. had to present and tell the story of this battle
  85. through this Minecraft world.
  86. It was a very fun and creative and although time
  87. consuming and ultimately, or, and I mean pretty challenging project
  88. in the end, it was very, it was, it was
  89. very relieving and it felt great to know that we
  90. made that and we were able to hold that off
  91. in just a week and it was very fun and
  92. creative project to be able to do.
  93. And in chemistry we used camera to create many infographics
  94. throughout the school year campus, a poster, infographic, live video,
  95. Many other technology based website um that I have mainly
  96. used for posters and infographics.
  97. I used it a little bit in 9th grade, but
  98. not too much.
  99. So being able to really take a deep dive in
  100. chemistry because lots of our assignments and projects were um
  101. or infographics and we had to use campus for and
  102. I was very glad to be able to be as
  103. creative as I want and learn the ins and outs
  104. and learn the small little details that you can add
  105. to your infographic to make it truly yours.
  106. And in english we used how to learn Prezi um
  107. which is what I'm using right now to have a
  108. fun and interactive way to pitch throughout this, uh making
  109. this presentation to making this pitch um in this reflection,
  110. I have had so much fun being able to learn
  111. the tiny little minute details that you can add to
  112. your presentation and finding a template and presentation that I
  113. feel really fits myself as an entrepreneur person and just
  114. as a learner and I find I I found that
  115. it was very fun to be able to be creative
  116. in this way and um show my full potential through
  117. a website that I had never been able to do
  118. before because I felt I had complete creative freedom using
  119. Prezi and in many other classes and sources uh improved
  120. my entrepreneurial mindset and I'm so grateful for all the
  121. opportunities that I have had this school school year.
  122. They have all, although been from home and from a
  123. far distance have been great opportunities and as good of
  124. opportunities as you can get in this type of learning
  125. environment. The last stride this school year has been a
  126. lot on everybody inside and out of school and it
  127. taught us how to be stronger and more adopt adaptive
  128. learners and, but I am very content and fulfilled and
  129. happy with what I accomplished a school year.
  130. And I believe this pitch reflects that I am proud
  131. of how far all the students at Patino have come
  132. despite the many struggles along the way, you have a
  133. good rest duty.