After finishing the warm-up, the new school year began to work intensively. In the first three days of this week, I was waiting for the project assignment with excitement. However, at this time I did not realize that I had made many indelible mistakes. And when I realized this tragedy, it was already four o’clock in the morning on Sunday this week.
Until Wednesday of this week, I was busy completing the explorations and assignment of other courses this term, and I did not look through and understand Capstone’s plan for this week. Because I mistakenly thought that not being assigned to the project and team members would make it difficult for me to start this week’s tasks. On Thursday, after receiving the assignment result of the project, I slowly gathered my teammates, which finished on Friday night. After completing the Team Rules file that evening, it was a terrible deepening of my misunderstanding, there was still plenty of time. As a result, I missed the most important information in the announcement that the Instructor, Bill sent me. “If you haven’t contacted the Sponsor, this is very tremendously bad.” I did send a Reach-out email to my Project sponsor by using the email address provided by Bill on Friday night, but there was no mention of the request for a more detailed project description and scheduling a meeting because at this time I was still waiting for the reply from the last team member. While waiting for a response from the Project partner on Saturday. I tried to follow the Instructor’s commend to use project proposal and internet searches as a source of ideas to complete the Problem Statement. Finally found that this is a task of Hell difficulty.
At the end of this series of incidents, what was left was me who continued to sit in front of the monitor at 4 AM with a cigarette and tried to complete the Problem statement. This experience led me to sum up a few lessons, and I hope I can avoid these mistakes in my future study and work.
- Never trust weekend deadlines and Never start them on Thursday or Friday instead of start earlier.
- Don’t expect others can reply to you immediately, find ways to begin move and reach them.
- If it is really impossible to start in advance, try to understand all the information about this task (be able to write down the key points).
Finally, fortunately, I am not an easy person to defeat. Even if there is no perfect start, I will try my best to perform perfectly in the following. Now, first, complete what I can do.
- Reply to Instructor’s email, trying to get more help from him on how to contact the project sponsor.
- Send another email to the Project Sponsor requesting more detailed information about the project and asking the earliest possible time for the meeting.
- Read the Project protocol again and try to find more information from the Internet to complete the Problem Statement.
Hope it will go well in the future.
