1.What three lessons were most helpful for you to see, and why?
The three lessons that were most helpful for me to see were the ones centered upon Business Management, Engineering and Negligence Law. These were the main topics that I was considering when thinking of my senior project, I wanted to know what sort of mentorship they took on and what their role was and if they actually felt like they learned something while "on the job"
2.List one thing that you learned about the senior project in interviews that will help you get off to a good start?
One thing that I learned from the senior interviews that will help me get off to a better start would be when they told me "it's not easy getting a mentor, you have to be very persistent or they just forget about you". I hadn't originally thought about how hard it would be to find a mentor, I thought that all I had to do was find a nice community service area and perhaps find someone working there that is well credited in the line of work that I am looking for, ask them if they would mind mentoring me and they would most likely say yes. I now have to subtract that "most likely" part. If I had gone in to summer with my original mindset that mentorship would be easy I probably would have placed finding a mentor to the last month of summer.
3.What topic(s) are you considering, and why?
My number one topic as of now would be business management, mainly because I am working at a restaurant right now and I am good friends with the owner so I sometimes see how she runs things around the place and ever since I first started working there I had been wondering how she can run a business all by herself. My aunt had also started her own catering business a while ago, she was successful but it only lasted about two years before she had her baby and other stuf with work came up and she could no longer find the time to run her little business, but I had always admired how she was able to begin something from the ground up.
4.What EQ do you think might be interesting to consider in guiding a project like this? (Please don't worry about any sort of formula...we want this question to come from your genuine interest).
I had started thinking about an essential question ever since Ortega walked in to Edwards class to explain the senior project, so far I have, "What is the most essential quality needed in order to open a successful restaurant?". It is still a work in progress but some potential answers include location, customer service, management or media advertisement.
5.What are some ideas you have about finding summer mentorship?
Like I had stated above I am good friends with the owner of the restaurant I am currently working at, I could always ask her for her guidance, but she might be too busy. Another option would be asking the manager of this other venue that my brother works at, they are good friends and I am sure that if I introduce myself, state my project goal and with my brothers recommendation the manager wouldn't mind being my mentor.
