End Of Year Senior Reflection

e-Communication has greatly impacted my life, even though I don’t plan on entering the AV Communication field. I am going to school to study music education, and I plan to take the leadership skill I gained in this program and applying it to my own classroom.

I feel that I am more technically advanced than a lot of other kids my age. For example, I made my grad party invites myself, after coaching my mom through the photography process and photoshopping my own pictures. I have learned to collaborate with people I don’t particularly like, and I feel this skill will help me in my future workplace. As a teacher, I will need to be able to communicate with my students and my coworkers, and my job as AD greatly prepared me for that. Managing a set taught me management skills by allowing me to know when to adjust deadlines and when to stick to them. Leadership went from being a quality I never had to one of my greatest values, and I’m so grateful to e-Comm for teaching me all of this.

Learning these leadership skills has not been easy, don’t get me wrong. However, I’m grateful for every stumbling block along the way. I was also AD my junior year, but a senior UPM basically took my job from me, and I felt pretty useless on set. I recently found out that my teacher at the time thought I was being lazy, and I’m glad I had this year to redeem myself and have a purpose in the film.

I'd have to say my greatest takeaway from this program would be my growth as a person. I went from being a follower to being a leader, and I’m eternally grateful. I do, however, need to work on my communication skills. I have always struggled with speaking, I had a stutter as a kid, and in therapy, they told me to sit and think about what I wanted to say before I said it. Now, if I don’t sit and ponder before I say something, it comes out as a jumbled mess that doesn’t make much sense. I’m excited to learn how to think on my feet and develop appropriate and relevant questions and answers.

I’m going to take all these things I’ve learned in e-Comm and apply them to my future career, whatever it may be. I wouldn’t change a thing about my experience, or this program. I love this program just the way it is.