Week 5 Reflection: The Power of Optimism
Optimism is Super Power
Hello again, at Weekly Reflection where here I will discuss the Experience Board and Optimistic Feelings.
1. How do you feel about your score so far? What does the score tell you about yourself? Do you think your position will change at the end of the program? Do you believe that you can make it to the next level?
Answers:
The points I get now do reflect my lack of effort and experience with the backend and the Ruby programming language and ended up taking quite a while in processing the material provided by the mentor.
My current position is around rank 100, of course, I feel less confident but I am sure that I have learned a lot and will gain if I stay excited and try to be more active in class and try harder to explore the material that has been given in class.
Honestly, for the moment I was not sure if I could pass the next stage because for the next stage there was only a quota for 60 participants. At this intermediate stage, there are 300 people, 100 people per track then each track is divided into 2 groups, if only 60 people pass, only 10 will be taken from each group.
But I still have a chance to be in the top 10 in the group because I’m still halfway through this intermediate stage so I won’t be discouraged until the end I just need to change a lot, that’s all.
2. What would you like to ask or say for your friends who made it to the top of the board? What do you think has made them succeed? What can you learn from them?
Answers:
I want to ask how they quickly adapt to the new programming language we are learning? but I’m sure most of them are geniuses and have experience in making a program so they can quickly adapt well.
I can learn to try even harder to catch up to all of them who are already in front of me and never lose heart.
3. Some of your friends might feel sad after seeing their score is low/not as expected. Some even say they feel like they’re in a dark tunnel because they have struggled to keep up with the rest of the class. What will you recommend them to do to finally “see the light again”?
Answers:
Never lose your enthusiasm, friends, a career as a professional programmer is very promising and bright. I’m sure the mentors who are now in fact working at Gojek in the past also experienced learning difficulties at the beginning of their careers, but they continued to progress because they already knew that the profession as a programmer was just a nickname. After all, the real thing was a problem solver. A problem solver will always be faced with problems and we are prospective problem solvers in the future who will overcome these problems so that life in this world will be even better.
That’s all for reflection this time, never give up and see you again.
