It's Not Always Sunny

For our final Humanities course of our senior year, Endurance, we started out with the unit Morpheus. In this unit we read Dante's Inferno and Strayed's Wild, both books about two individuals' journeys. Throughout this unit we figured out what our own missions are and what our journeys look like. For our action project we were assigned to write an autobiography that takes place 30 years from now. I'm proud of my finalized project because it's hard to say what my future will look like because I don't really know what I want my path to look like yet.

IJP . Family . 2016

Blue Booking It

For the first unit of our Entrepreneurship course, Know, we learned about all the fundamental concepts of business. We studied entrepreneurs, missions, visions, accounting, marketing, legal structures, investments, sales, management, and exit plans. I’m proud of myself in this unit because there was so much different information but I think I mastered them all. I showed this mastery with our action project. This project was a lot different than ones I’ve previously done at GCE. For this unit, our action project was taking a blue book test, showing that we are ready for the upcoming units, as well as the immense amount of preparations that happened prior to the test.

AMD . Untitled . 2016

The purpose of the entire first unit was to prepare us for the next two where we will be creating our own business plan. Without this basic knowledge of business that we learned, we’d be going in blind. I also got to see specific ways all the different information we learned is actually used. I I researched and spoke to over 15 different entrepreneurs and businesses. The ones that stuck out to me the most were all the entrepreneurs I spoke to directly, because I think you can get a much better sense of a business when you speak to the founders directly. The person who inspired me the most is the founder of GCE, Eric Davis. He is making strides every day to reinvent education and to improve the the way kids are taught. It was crazy that even though I have gone to this school the past 2 years, there was so much I had no idea about that Eric was able to shed a light on. From the way it was started to where we are now, there was so much I found out about GCE and what I am a part of. It was an interesting perspective to hear, as well, because of how honest he was and how he was able to address the mistakes that he’s made, not just the successes. When he spoke about himself personally, we were able to see what a motivated person he was, and it inspired me to be the same.

For the actual action project we spent 3 weeks learning about the 10 concepts I mentioned earlier--entrepreneurs, missions, visions, accounting, marketing, legal structures, investments, sales, management, and exit plans. We also did our own research, created our own study guide, made our own test questions, planned and participated in group study sessions, taught our own lessons, and then took an hour and a half long test showing the mastery of all those concepts and that we know how to apply them to the real world.

I’m nervous going into this next unit because it’s one thing to learn all these concepts and see how other people use them, and it’s another to have to use them yourself. I’m not yet sure what I want my business to be, or how I will plan everything out, but I’m excited to figure it out. I know that whatever I choose it will be an intense yet extremely useful two units. I’m looking forward to creating my own business plan and maybe even follow through with making it happen.