Blog Reflection

The Capstone Project has been an amazingly terrifying experience. what I mean by that is though there was a lot of stress I feel like this project has given me a new perspective on what it takes to make it through tough situations. The project itself was very fun for me, I got to work on something I love in my physical, as well as write about something I feel so strongly about. The capstone project gave me a new sense of what it means to work in the professional world, you must take charge on your own if you want something to happen. I also learned that I am much more passionate about pursuing youth ministry as a career now that I've gotten an almost full experience.

Some of the experiences I learned from the capstone project were that though working under pressure and stress is not the ideal situation, I am able to focus and get what I need to get done out of the way not matter what the stress. Socially, I learned that I'm not the best at working with other people even if those people are there to help me do the best that I can. I have also learned that I am willing to improve any situation, like social awkwardness, to make myself and my project better. Other experiences I have gained is that my ability to be creative is definitely helpful for my physical project, because I had to find a way to make an interesting lesson for my mentor's youth group so they would be engaged.

Some challenges I faced through out the entire project were definitely trying to balance my time wisely. I had a lot of things going on like the musical, night school, and work before I started working with my mentor and starting to write my paper. Though at first it was a struggle, I learned that most of the time I can make a negative and stressful situation work out for the better, and I was able to get everything completed for the appropriate due dates. One of the major struggles I felt I had during the capstone process was receiving a "No Read" for my teacher draft, not only did that stress me out for trying to gain those points back some how, but It made me want to try twice as hard when I went to put the finishing touches on my final paper.

Over all I believe that this project has created a sense of what it is really like when we get to college, and move on to our careers. Though the capstone was one of the scariest projects I've ever done in my life, I have learned to appreciate what the project was made to do, which was prepare us. As I look back on when I started the project to now, I have realized that no matter how terrible, or stressful I felt about the entire thing, I know that I needed that. This project has made some pretty great changes to how I organize, manage my time, and handle stress, In my opinion, thats exactly what this project was made to do.