Not everything goes according to plans. Lessons and family and life teach you so much as it all swings about. I'm just trying to figure this all out.
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I recently looked at my portfolio and felt woefully underachieved. I mean the thing was empty and yet I wanted to build a personal website. Then I read this article (God bless Thomas J. Frank BTW) and realized I HAD DONE STUFF! I just simply did not think of it as stuff.
My first semester, we had Engineering lab projects. I made a speaker on my own and a cat toy launcher with a team. The cat toy launcher was a beauty. The speaker...
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... not so much lol. I had gone into the project with trepidation at working with circuits and a"Just get a B" attitude. But building a speaker from scratch is pretty cool especially when you soldered the amplifier circuit yourself. I wasn't looking at the bigger picture of having a portfolio to put on my website and keeping the knowledge and skills I learnt. My mind was vision-tunneled on grades and grades alone.
To focus on the itsy bitsy of life you need to have an idea of the largey parts: the goals; bigger picture.
Ugh this sounds... didactic, I just wanted to impart a ~lesson~ I learnt I suppose. Don't sell yourself short. Tiny stuff counts. Everything you do counts. And not just for the goal of corporate employment but for yourself. If I had counted my speaker as something, I would have out so much more effort into it, appreciated what I was learning, boosted my self esteem you know. I probably would not have lost the speaker either 😐🤷🏾♀️
