Rooted in my Heritage: An Entrepreneurial Journal

This course has been entirely different from what I thought it would be when I started and I am extremely grateful for that. Throughout this semester, we have focused on the value of ongoing learning both through formal education and informal avenues of learning, leadership, pursuing dreams, setting ethical boundaries for how to conduct ourselves, finding the right companions and mentors, and using our passions, strengths and talents to become who we were always meant to become. When I first started this course, I thought it would be much more business oriented, more focused on foundational details of what it takes to start up a business.  I was wrong.  This class was much more.  I took this class in conjunction with a writing class geared towards professional writing for my major.  They dovetailed together beautifully because what I learned from the combination of these two classes, was that I don't want to be an entrepreneur.  I want to write. I want to be a l...

 As we near the end of the semester, I feel a great sense of relief.  Not because my classes have been more than I could handle per se, but because life in general has felt very heavy over the past few months.  I decided to take a lighter semester next term to really allow myself time to focus on enjoying the summer with my children. I look forward to this summer with great hope that it will be a time of rest and that when the fall comes around, I will have the strength and energy to jump back into the weightier classes with full force.  Even as I have struggled these last few months, however, I have been extremely grateful for what my studies have given me this semester.  I have had wonderful professors who have taken an interest in me and also in the personal challenges that I have faced recently.  I have had classes that were interesting and personally fulfilling on levels that helped me reevaluate my life and rediscover things that I knew about myself b...