Learning from advice.

 Hey, it’s me again! Welcome to my second blog post, I hope you are doing well. Today I wanted to write about a few different things with you, my readers.  I wanted to talk about getting advice and what do to with it, and a little bit about my learning journey with the English course. 

Getting advice has never been my strong suit. Especially when I was younger, I would take offense when someone gave me advice.  I think it has something to do with being really critical of myself and my work, but since then I have learned to accept and use the advice I am given to help myself out in different kinds of situations. I feel like many people have or have had the same problems with getting advice, and I think it is good to learn to recognize if advice that you get is useful or not. If you are given clearly bad advice, you should just dismiss it and continue with your day.  

One piece of advice I have gotten that has really stuck with me is, “You learn from your mistakes.”. I have been able to use that advice many times in my life and I will probably be using it for the rest of my life.   To me that advice reminds me of how making mistakes teaches us more than it takes from us. At least I learn the best when trying things and when making mistakes correcting them. For example, when doing school assignments, I once returned a code that had a mistake, and the professor of the course told me about it. After I knew what was wrong, I changed it and learned from my mistake. After that, I didn’t make the same mistake again, because I remembered the process better.  

I feel like I could use this same advice even on this English course and especially while using new vocabulary that we are learning. It is after all better to try to use a new word that you have learned and making a mistake and then correcting it, then not even trying to implement the new things that you have learned to your work.  

On the subject of the English course, I wanted to fill you in on my learning journey and the goals that I set for myself for this spring. So, my biggest goal was as I mentioned last time learning new vocabulary specific to our field of studies. I feel like I have started to learn new vocabulary week by week, with the help of the readings and English lessons. I do still feel like I have a lot of learning to do, but I’m getting there! 

I hope you have an amazing rest of the day and that you enjoyed reading my blog again, I sure did enjoy writing it! 

My first ever blog post.

 

Hi, and welcome to my first ever blog post, I hope you enjoy reading and maybe learning about me a bit more. When I finished high school, I thought I would start studying languages or business in university, but unfortunately I didn’t get in when applying. Now I think it was a good thing for me to take a break from studying and to work for a few years. I worked in multiple different kinds of jobs and tried to find something that was interesting enough for me to study more about, but without luck. I had never really heard about information processing or thought about it as a possible thing to start studying, until last spring when I started to research different schools and university programs on a deeper level and got interested in information processing. I don’t have any skills in the field but am interested about it, because I feel like our studies have multiple layers on it and there’s always something more to learn. Another thing that got me even more interested about is the fact that there are such good job rates for you after you finish university. I feel like the skills that I have that could benefit me and others the most are my social skills and my language skills. I’m not afraid of speaking out my mind or help someone else to voice out their concerns and thoughts when needed.

I feel like blogging has a lot of really good advantages to offer and of course not all of them suit everyone or serve everyone’s needs the same way. To me personally I feel like I would benefit the most from having a community in where I could exchange ideas and ask for advice when in need. It would be great to have the opportunity when for example developing something new to be able to tell about the difficulties and the positive outcomes to likeminded people and also read about the same type of things other people have done. At the same time, while being able to express and process the evolution of a project, you might even find someone passionate enough about the subject to come and join you or maybe even fund a part of the project. But that’s just an ideal situation…

I’m really excited about the English course and expect and hope to learn more words specific for information processing, and hope to being able to use them later on in work life. Other than that, I’m also hopeful about learning to write more coherently in English.

Thanks for taking the time of your day to read my blog <3