ANDREA: Hi there.
This is Andrea's v-log for the 13th
of January in regards to the class yesterday,
which I guess would have been class six, where basically, we
sat down and did a table read of most of the scripts.
And it was a fairly good day.
I gained an appreciation for how difficult
it is to distill all of your ideas
down into a small, really good, compact, and compelling story.
And so I thought it was really useful.
I hope some of the other students
also thought it was pretty useful.
I know it's really difficult to stand in the line of fire
of six, seven, eight other people who are all
critiquing you but I think you guys
all did a really wonderful job.
And yes, I would want to watch all of your movies.
I think they would be all awesome.
So I actually have a couple of confessions to make.
First of all, I'm feeling much better today.
So I'm much more hopeful about being
able to complete the assignment of actually doing
some filming in the next few days
since I have most of my voice back
and I just had to basically sleep all night last night.
But my confession is actually that I've
considered dropping or at least reducing
down to listener status in this class seven or eight times.
It's been probably one of the most difficult classes
I've ever taken and that's saying something,
since I was a chemistry major and I'm also
in business school.
But I think it highlights that we
have a lot of potential psychological blocks
and it's really instructive to try to get
over these mental blocks.
And one of them, of course, for me is being on video
and being photographed.
That's one of them but another one
was sort of shifting my mindset from sort
of being a product manager, which is what I
was prior to coming to school.
I was very business-oriented mindset
and getting back into the educational mindset.
And I think that that has changed--
I don't want to say, oh my gosh, it's changed my life.
But in a sense, it's why I decided
to step back from business and to sort of recapture
my love of science, of making people successful in science,
whether it's small children or other adults who are starting
their own businesses.
That's really why I came to business school.
And I think this dovetails actually really nicely
in with this whole mission.
So I'm glad I haven't dropped yet
and I'm really hopeful that I can continue my momentum
and basically complete everything.
And I know it's not going to be perfect.
That's another big mental block that sometimes we
cling on a lot to perfection.
And I know it's going to be a pretty rough cut by next week
but it'll be a lot of fun.
So cheers, everyone.