2. Introduction

Coming into Dr. Wellman’s BMGT289 class, I was the most lost I had ever been. First of all, I wasn’t a business major like most of the other BSE scholars students, I was in letters & sciences as an undecided major. The reason why I decided to make my major as undecided was because in high school I had no idea what I wanted and I didn’t take much action to find out what I would have liked to do. This already made me feel like I was an outsider because I wasn’t in the business school and class had barely even begun yet. Furthermore, I didn’t even know the first thing about business itself. The only reason why I even chose to be in the Business, Society, and the Economy scholars program was because I saw that the students go on lots of field trips. I was quite literally going into the class blind. Despite this, I was strangely excited to see what the class had in store and hoped that it would cause some sort of self-improvement. Coming into this class I had always thought that a company’s success was measured by how much money they make, not by how innovative they are or what processes they use to create ideas. I later found this was much more important.

What I hoped to get out of this class was a deeper understanding about the business world as well as what it means to be innovative. After talking to second-year BSE students on the annual first day of school College Park Scholars service day, I gathered that Dr. Wellman was a difficult yet amazing teacher. I liked that there were interesting books in the syllabus as part of our education. It was really refreshing to have a number of different insightful books to learn material from instead of a traditional drab textbook like every other class. I read the Steve Jobs book over the summer and it really fascinated me, so I imagined that the other books would have a similar effect and it got me excited to see what we had in store for us.

I looked forward to this class because it seemed very reflective and I recognized the urgency to develop internally if I ever wanted to decide on a major here. As far as choosing a major, I knew what I didn’t want to do (science, English, history), but there was so much that I didn’t know, leaving me feeling very uncertain about what road to take. Completing the PCR turned out to be more beneficial than I would have ever imagined. I’m hoping my blog gives an accurate portrayal of who I am as a student and how much I have learned from this class. In order to challenge myself and push boundaries, I made my PCR into the form of an online blog. I’ve always enjoyed the art of blogging but never gotten into it myself until this project. I realized how easy it actually is, and additionally I realized I had learned a new skill that I could market and put on my resume.