3A-My Entrepreneurship Story!

       My story begins at the end of my freshman year at UF (the spring of 2016). I had gone to my advisor to discuss my classes for the upcoming year. I am a biology major, hoping to become a dentist one day. I had spent the year taking difficult science classes and wondering how the next three years of my college experience were going to be. When I pictured them, I imagined spending all of my time in labs and libraries. However, when I saw my advisor I found the entrepreneurship minor. I found it interesting and a good break from the science world so I decided to enroll in my first class, ENT3503. This class was my first taste of the Entrepreneurship world.
      I truly had no idea what to expect with that course. To be honest, I did not even know what social entrepreneurship was. As I began to watch the lectures and complete the assignments for this class, I became intrigued. We got to analyze our carbon footprints as well as the environmental impacts of large corporations. I got to research BMW and learned how they are actually more ecologically friendly in their business and productions ventures than I thought. I learned about individual entrepreneurs and the impacts that they have had on our society. So many of them started as normal college students just like us and now they have changed the world for the better! My favorite part of this course though was our Experiential Learning Consulting Project. This was a project in which we were paired up with three other students and assigned a social entrepreneur venture here in Gainesville. I got to work with the Field and Fork pantry which is located right on campus! Throughout this project we got to work together as individual entrepreneurs and think of ideas on how to better our venture. This included areas from writing a business plan to thinking of ways to expand our venture to a wider audience to creating a plan of what we would spend on these activities. This is when I finally understood what it meant to be an entrepreneur. You have your own ideas that you have to put your passion into and you get to watch them grow and unfold. The success is all in your own hands and that is something that excites me! I like to be in control of things and I like having a part in making my dreams a reality. ENT3503 taught me tools that entrepreneurs use daily and how their actions affect our world.

       I enrolled in this class first and foremost because it was required for my minor. However, I would never have thought to taken this course without finding the minor, but am so glad I did. After taking ENT3503, I am excited to learn even more about the field of Entrepreneurship. Since ENT3503 was focused more on social entrepreneurs, I feel very well versed in that topic. However, we briefly touched on the fact that social entrepreneurship is only one branch of a large domain. I am interested in seeing what other sectors of the business world entrepreneurs work in. I want to learn techniques on how to better develop my own ideas and how to put them into action. I hope to learn how to connect my assignments done in this class to my future. I hope to own and run my own dental practice one day and know that I could apply some of my entrepreneurial techniques into that. So as I take this course, I will keep that in the back of my mind.

2A-My "Bug" List

This is a list of things that bug me.

1. When people scream or talk too loudly in small enclosed spaces.
• Some people like to hear the sounds of their own voices. They feel the need to yell to get their point across because they feel it is more forceful.
2. When people come into my bedroom by way of opening the door and do not close the door when they leave the room.
• People are lazy and forgetful. They do not think about the consequences of their actions. Now I would have to get up and close the door because they were too careless to do it.
3. While walking down the street, people feel the need to walk as close to you as possible and invade your personal space. They also oftentimes cut you off when trying to get in front of you.
• Some people do not realize that they are walking that close to you. They are often distracted by other things such as their cellphones or other actions occurring around them. 
4. People who think that they are better or more elite than others and treat others poorly.
• We, unfortunately, live in a society that splits us up based on money, race, appearance, gender, and so many other standards. The media takes these groups and glorifies certain ones for reasons unknown. This is how people get an elitist attitude.
5. Getting up from a table and not pushing in the chair.
• This is another example of forgetfulness and carelessness. People just assume that if they leave it out, somebody else will come and push it in for them. 
6. People butting into a conversation that people are not a part of.
• Some people just want to give their opinions on everything. They do not usually mean to be intrusive but it comes off this way. Another reason could be that they just want to feel included or accepted even if they were not initially invited to be.
7. When you get in the express checkout line at Publix grocery stores and the customer in front of you has more than 10 items.
• This exists because when people are in a hurry they want to join the shortest line. The express lane is usually this situation. Even though they are now creating a longer line, they don't care because they do not have to wait as long.
8. The line for the drive-thru window at the Starbucks back in my home neighborhood of Palmetto Bay is always filled up to the edge of the parking lot so far that going inside to wait in line is faster than waiting in it.
•  People who have time to actually go inside the store are just too lazy to park and get out of the car. This defeats the purpose of even having a drive-thru.The purpose of a drive-thru is supposed to be fast and efficient. When this line is longer than the line inside, the drive thru becomes a hassle.
9. When the passenger in the car keeps changing the music on the radio before the song even ends.
• Some people just don't think about others before they do certain things. In the car, people want to be as comfortable as possible and so they do whatever they want. 
10. Sitting at a meal in a nice restaurant with people who loudly chew their food with their mouths open.
• Some people were not raised to have good table manners and do not see an issue with eating in this manner. 
11. When the person who used the toilet before you lifts up the toilet seat and does not put it back down.
• Forgetfulness. (again). People use the toilet and just either don't want to touch the seat again or just forget to put it back down. 
12. Walking down the street in a nice pair of shoes and getting gum stuck to the bottom of them.
• People are too lazy to find a trashcan to dispose of their gum so they just throw it on the sidewalk. 
13. People throwing their used cigarette butts out the window of the car while they are driving.
• Again, laziness. When people are done with their cigarette, they just throw it out the window because they likely don't have an ash tray in their car and they don't want their cars to get dirty. 
14. Having a conversation with somebody but they will not stop staring at their cellphone screen.
• Technology has taken over our world. We are so obsessed with our cellphones that we do not even have the decency to look up at somebody when they are speaking to us because we cannot bring ourselves to miss something that could be happening on the screen. 
15. Leaving the sink filled to the rim with dirty dishes.
• This is an act of laziness. Doing the dishes takes effort and can also be gross. So an easy fix is to just put it in the sink and let somebody else clean them.
16. When you are waiting in line and somebody tries to mesh in and cut in front of you.
• Nobody likes to wait in line. Most people are very impatient. It is so much easier to just try to nonchalantly make your way into the line. People often think they are sly and nobody will notice them.
17. When you are in the middle of telling a story or finishing a statement and somebody interrupts you.
• People can get very excited about their ideas. Sometimes this excitement is so great that they just cannot hold it back and they have to let their idea out instantly.
18. When the water in the bathroom sink is left on after people wash their hands.
• Some folks just don't think about the consequences of this action. They do not realize that leaving the water on is wasteful. They probably just forget to turn it off and leave the room with no regard. 
19. The mess that is left over after a lunch or dinner in somebody else’s home.
• Since it is not their own home, people assume that the host will clean up for them. This is not usually the case but for some reason people think that if they don't clean it up then somebody else will.
20. When people come into the kitchen and leave the cabinets open after they have taken something out of them.
• Laziness. People often open the cabinet and grab what they need and simply walk away. Oftentimes their hands are full with items from the cabinet so they do not have hands to close it and just leave it open.

Reflection: 

This assignment was a lot more difficult than I anticipated. I began writing my list days ago and added to it slowly as I began to think of things. I knew a few of my bugs right off the bat. These were some of my biggest “pet peeves”. It took me a few days to go out and notice things that bugged me. I went about my day and when I felt annoyed, I pulled my phone out and wrote it down. This helped me complete my list. I, however, felt myself being very nit-picky when it came to actually completing the 20. I do feel as though all 20 items on my list bug me but some are more prominent than others.

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