I came from MBO and I feel a significant difference in the way of working (much more individual, responsibility), in the level and pace of education and the amount of work you have to do. At the start I sometimes had a hard time keeping up with the class. I felt like IBIS was a train and I was hanging on a rope behind the train, trying to heave myself to catch up. As the weeks go by, I’m approaching the train more every day. I feel like I can step in the train any minute and I hope I won’t fall back in the new term. If I do: I know I will catch up again. In other words without the metaphor: I’m starting to learn what people expect from me on HBO and I’m trying to live up to those expectations. As the weeks go by, I feel like this process really is in development.
In the beginning I did have some troubles trying to catch up with class. The problem was that I could keep track of the story the teachers were telling, but I had a hard time coming up with additional questions or remarks. This requires a certain ability to think further than the story of the teacher. Since this improved over the weeks, it might have been a thing that I had to get used to.
I always work my way through school with hard work and motivation. Brain capacity or intelligence comes second because I can’t make it just based on those (although on MBO there were some easy moments). Because of this I created a mentality of working to get things done and I think this really comes in handy in this study. I’ve seen people making a poster for their presentations one hour beforehand. This would never happen to me. I think I can improve this mentality a lot more in this study. Things won’t work out by itself, I have to roll up my sleeves and do something. After a couple of weeks of getting used to the whole IBIS environment, I started to find structure in my work and the amount of hours I worked per day.
I learned not to compare myself to other people as much. Sometimes I’m comparing myself to others in the IBIS environment and eventually being very annoyed at the end of the day because that particular person is better than me. Even if I deliver a good piece but someone delivers a better one, I’m willing to throw my work in the trashcan. I have learned over the past term not to do this because I am a level higher than last year and I would have to compete against people that are smarter than me. I would end up making myself crazy. Comparing yourself to others can be a good thing too. It will motivate you to get the most out of yourself.
I chose the NLU Mobile Marketing because, as you can see at my hobbies on the „about me“ page, I like technology. I follow news around companies like Apple and Samsung on a daily basis and I try to go in depth with the developments of the big technology providing companies or additional or third party organizations. This is why I’m already quite familiar with terms like Big Data, NFC, and Beacons, what the pros and cons are and I would like to learn even more about them.
I chose NLP: Key to be More because I think it is interesting to go in depth in how people react to certain things and how this is influenced by external impulses. We already talked a bit about language in PSD and I’d like to know more about it.
I chose Photoshop because as you can see in my hobbies, I’m interested in photography but I have zero knowledge about what happens after the photo is taken. I think this might come in handy in my future career in certain situations but I also like it for personal reasons.
I chose Russia because I would like to know more of the country and the culture. There are a lot of perspectives to every problem and I have never been told about the Russian perspective. I would like to know why they do the things they do and how they feel about certain situations.
My English has improved over the last term but the job is far from done. I remember being in the very first interview for IBIS in the study check day. It didn’t go smooth. I learned to speak English more smoothly and with more self esteem. The fact that the program is in English was the main reason to check this study out in the first place. I want to learn to speak, write and understand English on a very high level.
The teachers have been talking about the comfort zone a couple of times. They are doing their best to pull you out of there. I think my zone is stretched up quite a bit. Speaking English all day and doing a higher level of education with a lot of presenting helps to pull you out. I took the zone stretching into account before entering this program. I didn't really feel like to go abroad in a couple of years and now I’m actually excited to go.
I ran into some problems while making the assessment for International World of Business. My way of working is to slowly build the document. Try brainstorming beforehand: what do I want to talk about? Then I make headers for each paragraph and put the ideas of content under the right header to add more and more details to the ideas until I have a full document. This is were it went wrong: I focussed on the wrong stuff. When I brainstormed for ideas, I listed everything that came to mind. I had to filter them later in order to focus on the right content. I forgot to filter, ending up researching a topic that wasn’t really that relevant. It was about the inventor of the telephone, but historians don’t really know who invented it. It turns out that the man who patented it: Alexander Graham Bell, stole it from someone else. But a couple of decades before that, someone else already invented it. I spent a couple of hours trying to find how it really happened, without success. In the end I wrote down that Bell patented it, but it is not sure who was the true inventor. I lost a lot of time due to this.
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