FBI Reflection
- Gracie Lewis
- May 2, 2018
- 3 min read
I can confidently say that the Business 101 class was nothing like what I expected it to be. I had way more fun with the project than I thought I would have. Mr. Johnson is such an interesting man, I honestly enjoyed listening and paying attention to what he had to say. One of the most important things I think he talked and taught us about was what the Deresiewicz article had to say. I have learned that you don’t need to be the ‘smartest’ person to be successful. Many times, knowledge is measured by how well one does in school or on certain tests, but I think true knowledge and intelligence is immeasurable. I don’t need to have a 4.0 in all my classes to succeed, I just need to know how to work hard at the work worth doing. Deresiewicz states that many people with some of the highest schooling don’t know how to think for themselves. I think this means that no matter how good you are on paper, your real value and what you have to offer this world can never truly be tested, only shown by your actions and what you choose to fully immerse yourself in.
Another important thing I learned in this class was how to build a team. We started out as a small group of five people who were thrown into a project team; our task was to complete a project unlike anything we had done before. I am thankful for this experience because it has increased my confidence and introduced me to new friends. Just looking back to the beginning of the semester and seeing where we all were and how superficial we were to each other makes me smile because now I can see everyone’s genuine self and who they truly are. I am glad to have grown with my team and I don’t think our project would have been as successful as it was if we didn’t have the exact members we did. I think this has made me grow even more as a person based solely on the fact that I had to put my trust in strangers. I had to allow myself to believe in them and that they would get their share of the work done. By being assigned a project so blindly, I have learned how to take something that started out as nothing and morph it into a valuable piece of work.
One thing I wish I would have done differently was taken those quizzes more seriously and actually tried to learn each of the frameworks. Mr. Johnson didn’t hold lectures on each of them if he didn’t think they would come in handy to us. At first, I kind of thought the whole thing was stupid and I wouldn’t learn any valuable information, but I am happy to say I was wrong. I feel this way because I think I can actually apply them to my everyday life. I could use Bloom’s to help me learn information starting from the most basic form and then building up to the most complex. I could use Tuckman’s in each group project I participate in; it would help me know where my team is supposed to be and how we should be growing. I could use the ladder of inference in mostly all decisions I make. It would help me collect my thoughts and put them in an order that would be beneficial to me.
I am also thankful for y’all, Auston and Annie; from the beginning, you both were so chill, but you made sure we stayed on track and got what needed to be done, done. I like how y’all kind of made the class your own by changing some assignments up because y’all didn’t think they would be very beneficial to us. That really shows how much you cared about us getting the most out of this class that we could have. Not only were y’all relaxed with us in class, but on our actual work too. I am grateful that y’all decided to give us a break while grading our things and acknowledging our effort instead of the content. Thank you for being such awesome peer leaders and making every small group class fun and interesting; I never left a class unhappy!

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