Celebrating Failure (ENT3003 Assignment 26A)

1. Just this semester, I feel like I failed in procuring an internship for the summer. There were plenty of opportunities available to me to network and even though I sent out emails and applied to the few that interested me, I have yet to get an interview or even a simple response. Granted, I am doing the UF in London: Study and Intern program for the Spring 2020 Semester and am also a veteran with over 4 years of work experience in Supply Chain Management, so I'm not desperate for an internship or experience. However, more experience would only help, so I am definitely still on the hunt for a summer internship for when I get back from London.
2. I have learned that even great profiles and people get overlooked for opportunities all of the time. That is not a reason to doubt yourself or get down, but instead to continue to grind and push yourself to reach that goal. Greatness always gets recognized, we just have to be patient sometimes and wait for our moment.
3. Failure is definitely hard and makes you look at yourself in a bad way. However, after that initial stage of being down about it, you should be able to reflect and find ways that you could have done differently and then go out and attack the same goal or a different goal in a different angle that you didn't see before. That is how I handle failure, as fuel to power me in a slightly different direction to achieve the same goal or a similar one. I am able to look at failure more as a risk worth taking, because of this class, because it showed me that all successful people are the ones who failed the most at one point in their lives.