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What sticks out to me after completing this course has been the fact that it was a start in many ways for me. Before this course I’ve had a litany of ideas that I felt identified an opportunity. However, I never knew where to start and how to move forwards with my idea. In this course I learned that its all about tearing down and building up ideas, while keeping the essence or foundation of the opportunity number one and most important. At the end of this course I genuinely feel more like an entrepreneur and feel both empowered and full of knowledge I didn’t have at the start of this course.             As a recommendation for incoming students, time management and giving each assignment your all is paramount to success. Breaking out of your comfort zone was very important at least for me during this course and has made me extremely comfortable moving forward and I really must thank this course for bringing this out of me.

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Every year around the United States, the requirements and expectations of schools increase and change. More schools look for different skills and attributes for their future students. Not only does this give students a harder time with choosing the schools they want to attend, but also provide them with more stress due to their inability to pinpoint what exactly colleges want. This is an opportunity that I had identified when I was in high school. I found it incredibly difficult to both manage my high school coursework and my SAT responsibilities. For students here in Florida, we are fortunate to have the Bright Futures scholarship that rewarded students, who got above a 1290 on the SAT, with paid tuition costs for any college or university in Florida. However, starting July 2020, the requirement will increase to a 1330 on the SAT for Bright Futures to pay for student tuition. Not only is this a significant increase, but it will also hinder students going into college negatively. An ...