Blog: Please finalize blogging around your journey from rough to final cut and any challenges or successes you can share with the group.
I would say for me the two biggest challenges throughout this whole process were time and (I’m inventing a new term here) ignorance procrastination. This can also be confused with creativity procrastination. As with everyone else, I’ve got a very busy life, and I don’t like to procrastinate, I just don’t feel good about myself when I procrastinate. That being said, ignorance procrastination, as defined by me, is when you procrastinate because you don’t know how to do something. Not quite sure where to start...so you put it off. Related to ignorance procrastination is creativity procrastination. We’ve been given numerous opportunities throughout this program to show our creative side, and sometimes I’m just out of creative ideas, so I put something off until a brainstorm hits me. Sometimes...a brainstorm never hits, and I wind up completing work below my standards just to get the assignment done. In reflection...even though writing the paper over the summer was a very frustrating, daunting task, I’m very thankful that I had all the time during the summer to work on it. It makes me realize that finalizing my capstone, producing videos, posters, infographics, blogging, etc., would’ve been a little easier if we had the time we have during the summer break. As I write this blog during my prep at school (three days late) I can honestly say I don’t think I’m going to finish everything before the deadlines. Three kids, wife, sports schedules, mascot and football craziness at Napa High, 4H pigs, home improvement, and teaching full time are all on burners in front of my capstone burner. I’m going to keep plugging away, because nobody likes these dark clouds of responsibility looming overhead, but I’m also not going to over stress about it. I’ve set the goal of getting my Master’s Degree and I’m going to get it...I just might have to slow my pace a little bit. But it will get done. I appreciate Touro’s patience with me.
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I'm am right there with you on both kinds of procrastination.
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Lori
4/26/2017 12:08:22 pm
I think that your priorities sound exactly right. We're all just doing the best we can with the available time. You know you're going to earn your Masters degree, whether you complete this semester or next (or next)....so what's the rush?
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Dana Hand
4/26/2017 06:06:29 pm
Joe- I appreciate your honesty, and keeping a realistic timeline. My one criticism of this program is that I feel that the amount of time this would take was underestimated and not fairly represented. Getting a Master's Degree in a year is a really quick pace, especially since we all work full time. I know it took tremendously more time than I first had imagined. The learning curve and creative elements that you describe often take much longer than anticipated, not to mention that technology doesn't always cooperate. I know you will reach your goal and I am glad we got to be in Cohort 10 together!
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