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My idea has transformed over the last month, and I have decided that I am going to continue with a business that is quite basically a scheduler. I will be writing a program that will generate a schedule for any of the four major North American sports, with respect to each sports rules, while optimizing travel distances and days off. This will target, at first, the front end of each of the sports, meaning it will be for the commissioners. After I have developed the program enough, I hope to give it out to people just like you, or other business who have to plan travel for their employees or clients, while maximizing efficiency, with the click of a button.

As I mentioned before, this program will be tailored for the executives of each of the sports, meaning that they will be very busy people, and very, very rich at that. They would be driving nice cars, like Mercedes, or Teslas, white with black rims. They watch the news all day, and stock trading channels, and have grand children. These people could be fairly young, to pretty old, and the old ones feel young while the young ones feel old and stressed out. As for myself, our common qualities are for the love of sports, and the love of competition. I think that being raised around sports my whole life, and playing baseball for 14 years has shaped my love and respect for all sports. Therefore, I don't think these similar qualities are by coincidence.

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My Portmanteau: Imagineering

The word that I created and fiddled around with the last couple of weeks was imagineering. It is just as you suspected the combination of imagination and engineering, which to many people may not sound so new, and of course it isn't, but it was tough to come up with something random that didn't really make much sense. I chose to stick these two words together because it would make for smoother mentioning of it. I would be able to use it all the time while just talking about everyday things with my family.

Just as I suspected, when talking with my family and saying this word over and over, in the best context I could, they started to notice. Later throughout the weeks I noticed my father starting to say it in some of the same exact contexts, which to me is awesome. Everyone else in my family kind of laughed at the word, but my dad really did understand the connection, clearly.

Halfway Reflection

1) Tenaciousness is a skill. What are the behaviors that you have used (or developed) to keep up with the requirements of this course?

- Since each assignment has a specific time to be turned in, most times on Friday nights at midnight, I had to figure out when I would make time to fit with this class' schedule. There is a very specific outline for each and every assignment, and being lazy won't cut it. Time management is super important, and making an effort on top of that.

2) Tenaciousness is also about attitude. Talk about a moment or two when you felt like "giving up." What pulled you through? Do you feel like you've developed a tenacious attitude during the past two months? What experience or experiences most contributed to this?

- The "giving up" feeling has been a familiar emotion throughout this course. I feel like sometimes, the assignments aren't worth my time, yet I've decided to come back to it, and try to get myself out of the hole I've created for myself so that I can get a good grade and not have to worry about this class again. I don't think my mindset has changed much because I've simply been more focused on other classes like calc II and programming II.

3) Three tips. What are three tips you would offer next semester's student about (1) fostering the skills that support tenacity and (2) developing the 'tenacious mindset'?

1. Always work towards your goal. This includes being super persistent with what you are doing because most of the time, the first go at something may not go quite right, so don't let that get you down and give yourself reason to give up.

2. This class really comes down to time management, so think about a schedule the best you can. Most first year students' schedules are hectic (I know mine is) and you really need to figure out the time it is going to take to balance this class among others.

3. Put yourself in a position to succeed. Don't spend the time that you could be doing something worrying about how awkward or annoying it will be.