so the question is:
What you have learned about yourself in class (Comm 299-Career Fundamentals)
This class’ been a bittersweet one. It should worth more than 1 credit… but at the same time it’s risky if it’s worth more because if you don’t do well it’s going to affect your overall average. Anyway, I learned a lot about myself as well as other people in this class, but I’ll focus on what I learned:
I learned that I actually have lots of things that I can use to ‘sell myself’. I never knew that my involvement during high school makes it way easier for me to write down my resume. All I have to do was to open my CAS folder (creativity – action – service, for those of you who didn’t do IB) and take the relevant activities from there and put it on the list.
I learned that it is very possible for me to work in big companies as long as I know how to search for the job, how to bring myself during the interview and what answers I should give during the interview. I also learned that I actually already know how to network, it’s just that until now I never knew that it’s called networking.
Finally, I figured out the reason why I’ve never been a good public speaker. It is because I dislike the topic that I have to talk about. I always thought that I’m just not born with that ability so I avoided public speaking… one of the reasons why
I hated the first half of COMM299 — because I have to deliver a ‘speech’ every week. It was a torture, until the fourth week, where we get to talk about some ‘how-to’. I chose the ‘how to pull an all-nighter’ and that was the best speech I’ve ever done in my life, and I had this great feeling after I finished. I was surprised at first on how well I can talk about it, until I realized that it’s because I’m so pro in pulling an all-nighter (again, thanks to IB). It’s like an enlightenment! I never expect any courses I take in university to teach me more about myself — but this one-credit-in-two-term course sure prove that wrong! 🙂
