Final Reflection

What sticks out to you as the most formative experience? The experience that you'll remember years later? What was your most joyous experience? What experience are you most proud of yourself for accomplishing?

My favorite memory from this class is probably doing elevator pitch number 4.  I have never been a great presenter but while doing this pitch I really felt confident while doing it.  For the previous 3 pitches I had to do multiple takes because I would mess up on a word and give up, but for this pitch everything just seemed to flow.  In the years to come, I'll look back and remember this class forcing me to interview people and forcing me to get out of my comfort zone.  My most joyous experience in this class will be when I press publish on this post and I am finally done.  My most proud experience will be graduating college this semester.  My college experience has had many ups and downs and I was finally able to finish it.

At the beginning of the semester, I mentioned that I wanted each of you to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. And we repeated the mantra -- I am an entrepreneur. Now, at the end, do you see yourself as an entrepreneur? Do you think you have moved closer to developing an entrepreneurial mindset?

I do not see myself as an entrepreneur.  I see myself as an economists and every experience I have will help me see how all the markets work.  I guess this class has helped me in seeing exactly how an entrepreneurial mindset is a great thing, but I know through experience that for an idea to succeed in today's society the idea either needs to be completely revolutionary or you need capital to back up your idea so bigger companies do not steal it.

What is the one recommendation you would make to the students who are going to journey down this path in the future? What would you recommend they do to perform best in this course? What would you recommend they do to foster that mindset?

To any students who are going to go down this journey I would urge them to be prepared to think outside of the box.  To do the best in the course I would suggest that they do not wait till the last minute to turn in all of the assignments.  For them to get the entrepreneurial mindset I would tell them that its just a way of thinking, it isn't something that is easily learned from a book.