Navigating Challenges and Growth: My Third Quarter Reflection

"From Codes to Confidence: Lessons Learned in the Third Quarter"

          I am currently ending third quarter and reflecting on my biggest learning experiences, challenges, and opportunity to overcome obstacles. This quarter has taught me a lot in terms of research and building a website, forcing me to step out of my comfort zone.

What I Have Learned/Discoveries I’ve Made? 

          This quarter, working on our Community-Based Research (CBR) and creating websites has been one of the greatest learning experiences. With this, too I learned new coding practices, how to properly formulate web pages, and how to write lists. I loved to see how various codes work side by side the different features of a website; I saw a new perspective into web development.

At What Points the Problems/Challenges Hovered Over Me? 

          While these are things we learned, it wasn’t an easy process. I had a hard time memorizing codes, and there were time errors while building the website, which needed some patience and debugging. Since we were also trying to do interviews for our CBR it was quite daunting. Because the rest of my group and I were naturally hesitant to talk to strangers, reaching out for interviews felt like a daunting task. To further complicate matters, we stuffed the CBR as well, which added to the stress of it all.

How Did I Resolved These Challenges? 

          To deal with these struggles, I decided to practice and practice until I got the hang of writing code. When errors popped up, I didn't get frustrated, I just made the time to debug and troubleshoot. To make things easier for the interviews, my groupmates and I divided tasks. And so we wrote scripts and questions ahead of time to feel more confident about talking to people. We also had to organize like never before and think on our feet.

Moving On, I Will…

          Now that we are in the last quarter, I will be working on my time management skills so that I do not have to cram on important projects. I will also continue practice website development in order to accelerate skill parts and become more acquainted with it. Key Post to work on — Confidence Communication is very important because interviews & interactions are part of future projects.

          While this whole quarter may have been hard on all of us, it has taught me things such as resilience, problem-solving, and the importance of teamwork. These experiences will definitely contribute to my academic and personal growth in the future.