I always enjoy a fresh start; be it a new year, a new semester, or a new day, I like taking advantage of fresh perspective and renewed energy and motivation. This new year and new semester is different in a major way-- it's my last semester in college. Hard to wrap my mind around, but also overwhelming in the sense that I want to make the most of it in regards to academics, social life, and my community. I plan on directing some of this energy towards my legacy project with Kylie where I'll have the opportunity to affect my academics and my impact on the community.
Last year, in our final paper, Kylie and I set a goal for ourselves to meet once a week, regularly, to update each other on individual progress and reconnect on group goals and objectives. Since starting school, we've already set up such meetings and have even upped our meeting schedule to twice a week in order to gain momentum in the semester. Our contacts have become more eager to work with us, and I believe that's in part due to our more organized approach to maintaining contact with them. We have established the professionalism to respond in a timely manner and clearly state our objectives for the relationship. In doing this, we have already been able to solidify a date for our big event of the semester-- Glam Girls.
Kylie and I, in addition to have created a more organized and structured approach to our week-by-week progress, have also come together as a strong team in our constant consideration of how we can make this project an impact on our community, rather than simply an event. We constantly pose questions to each other, such as "How is this going to affect the issue long-term?" or "What else could we do to bring more awareness to the TCU community?". By doing this, not only are we keeping the thought fresh, but also allowing our ideas to develop over time and morph into concepts that are unique and effective. Acting on these concepts will be what makes our project an impact by the end of April.
I've enjoyed working with Kylie thus far, although I will admit I was concerned about our partnership at first. We're very similar people, both very type-A, direct, and take-charge, but I believe it has worked well for us to partner because we've also discovered some key differences that balance each other out. I tend to be better at managing our relationships with third parties whereas Kylie is effective at keeping us on task and on schedule. We've learned to use the differences to our advantage and to temper the similarities when we become overwhelming as a team. This partnership has even more meaning to me since we'll be coworkers starting this summer, and I'll have the opportunity to work with her again.
I look forward to our New Leader Update next week where we'll have the opportunity to share some of our further progress, which will be developed even more after one of our weekly meetings tomorrow.
Last year, in our final paper, Kylie and I set a goal for ourselves to meet once a week, regularly, to update each other on individual progress and reconnect on group goals and objectives. Since starting school, we've already set up such meetings and have even upped our meeting schedule to twice a week in order to gain momentum in the semester. Our contacts have become more eager to work with us, and I believe that's in part due to our more organized approach to maintaining contact with them. We have established the professionalism to respond in a timely manner and clearly state our objectives for the relationship. In doing this, we have already been able to solidify a date for our big event of the semester-- Glam Girls.
Kylie and I, in addition to have created a more organized and structured approach to our week-by-week progress, have also come together as a strong team in our constant consideration of how we can make this project an impact on our community, rather than simply an event. We constantly pose questions to each other, such as "How is this going to affect the issue long-term?" or "What else could we do to bring more awareness to the TCU community?". By doing this, not only are we keeping the thought fresh, but also allowing our ideas to develop over time and morph into concepts that are unique and effective. Acting on these concepts will be what makes our project an impact by the end of April.
I've enjoyed working with Kylie thus far, although I will admit I was concerned about our partnership at first. We're very similar people, both very type-A, direct, and take-charge, but I believe it has worked well for us to partner because we've also discovered some key differences that balance each other out. I tend to be better at managing our relationships with third parties whereas Kylie is effective at keeping us on task and on schedule. We've learned to use the differences to our advantage and to temper the similarities when we become overwhelming as a team. This partnership has even more meaning to me since we'll be coworkers starting this summer, and I'll have the opportunity to work with her again.
I look forward to our New Leader Update next week where we'll have the opportunity to share some of our further progress, which will be developed even more after one of our weekly meetings tomorrow.
