Last Extra Blog

Guess I survived I-Poly then!

These four years at I-Poly have given me red hairs which will soon turn grey so thanks for that. I guess it also wasn't an average highs school experience, so that will be something most people won't have. Senior Project managed not to kill me so I am glad for that as well in a way.

I do not have that much to say I guess, but I just want to say that I-Poly has been really fun and really sucky all at the same time. I am glad I did come to this school though. I meant some amazing people here and pretty sure I wouldn't have made the same type of friends at a regular high school. And now we all move on into bigger and better things and I know everyone here will do great!

That's all I want to say!
See you in ten years!

Blog 23: Final Lesson Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

The thing I am most proud of is that I didn't really stutter as much as I thought I would when explaining my answers to the class. I tend to get really nervous when doing big presentations like this one and jumble up my sentences sometimes. I felt like I had some more confidence that I usually have when presenting.

(2) Questions to Answer

a. What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?

An P+

b. What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project?

An AE-

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

Everything worked perfectly for me. I was able to get my hours done and able to find my answers on time. Hardly anything went wrong throughout my senior project. I was able to find a new mentor fast when my first one had vanished.

(4) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

I wouldn't change anything. I was happy with my overall results. Plus, haven't you heard, you don't change anything in the pass because that one little change and start a butterfly effect and possibly destroy the universe as we know it.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?

Senior project has shown me what it is like to have an actual job and the many sacrifices you will have to make when it came to going to mentorship. It has physically, and mentally, prepared me to be a hard worker and gives me more confidence when it comes to find an actual job so I have some what of an idea to be looking at for.

Blog 22: Mentorship

1. Literal

• Mentorship log is updated and can be found on the right hand side of my blog.

• Jason Cox - JPM Comics

2. Interpretive

One of the most important things I had gained from this experience is how important customers can be towards a business and always trying to make sure you have merchandise in stock for them at all times. After doing this for months, it gave me a new perspective on how hard a business can work to just try they have everything they need to help keep their business running and how hard they work to always please their customers. Instead of just saying that they are only nice because they want my money, it shows that the employees and business owners actually do care for their customers and shows how loyal a customer can be to them as well.

3. Applied

I went to Mentorship a lot. If I could I would go every week for a few hours, which gave me a lot of experience inside of the store. I had learned a lot of things from my mentor and the store owner, they were both very supportive towards my project. What helped me answer my EQ was the fact that I had so much experience at the shop it helped me learn things quicker. Talking to all of the customers was a great help towards my best answer, reading whatever new book came out (or at least trying to) showed me how hard it was to keep up with every single book, and having customers help out showed me that they also like the experience of how it is to work like at the store. Throughout the months I was there I had learned so much that could help me when it came to my EQ.

Blog 21: Exit Interview

1. My essential question is "What is the best way to achieve customer satisfaction for a comic store?".

Three Answers:

• Know Your Products
• Communication/Builing Relationships with Customers
• Have Customers Feel Apart of The Team

My best answer is Communication/Building Relationships with Customers because it has shown to be very effective while mentoring at JPM, and it considered the "Golden Rule" at various retail stores. I have have used this method in the store myself and have seen great results from the customers and have even become friends with most of them.

2. The process I took to arrive to this answer was asking how important customer satisfaction was in my interviews and all answers came out to be that it was very important and should not be ignored. So I chose to focus most of my attention towards that specific answer and had found great research on it.

3. I ran into very few problems while finding my answers and going to my Mentorship. The only thing that would have been the main problem was the repetitive information on customer service for my WB, since a lot of the research could be the same thing but just altered in different ways.

4. My two significant sources would have to be the many online articles I had found online, my mentor and Jean Pierre, the owner of the JPM Comics. Although the articles gave me a lot of good sources on business owning and customer service itself, I found that my mentor, Jason Cox, and Pierre gave me the information better in a way that I could understand it more and have me chances to practice them within the store with them.

Extra April Blog

This past month has actually been very helpful towards my senior project. I had gone more to my mentorship during the weekdays than the weekends. This was really fun to see the different environment in the store. There a lot more people that come in on Wednesdays so it was fun to talk to all of the regulars and we how friendly they are to one another.

This helped towards my second answer that involves talking to the customer and providing a friendly environment for them. I got to work more with the owner Pierre and I feel like he has more trust in me the more I work with him. He even asked me to help out with Free Comic Book Day, which happens to be this Saturday because it is one of the busiest days of the year. So I will be going to help out with that.

Independent Component 2

LITERAL

(a) "I, Gabriel Marquez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours of work."

(b) The only source that was needed for my Independent Component 2 was my mentorship. Since all I did for Independent Component 2 was extra mentorship hours it was fairly easy getting my sources for it. I mostly did extra mentorship hours to get as much experience in the store and learn new things when I had the chance too.

(c) Independent Component 2 Log has been updated.

(d) What I completed during my extra mentorship hours was what I usually do during my regular hours. I will run register, put together bags and boards, do some order forms for the new books coming in, and other small things here and there. What I also did for about the last three days of my extra hours was go in during the week, since I usually go in on the weekend. It is a completely new environment during the week. There are many more people on Wednesdays due to the new books coming out. Everyone is talking to each other since they are all friends with each other. Other than that I learned how we stock the new books and the special rules when it comes to the new books. I would say what they are, but it's a secret. I also got to work more with the owner Pierre and gets some hands on experience and tips from him.

INTERPRETIVE

These are some of the regular customers that come to the store every Wednesday to pick up the new books that just came out. As you can see, they form a circle and just talk among themselves.

This my view from behind the register when I ring people up. When the picture was taken there happened to be no one in the store so my mentor Jason Cox decided to be in the picture.

This is what he do when we put new books on the shelf to prepare them. See the white comics in the back of me? They are just turned over, so when it's time to sell them we just flip them back and sell them away!

APPLIED

This helps me for my EQ because it gave me more experience dealing with new customers I have never dealt with before. I quickly befriended them and I talk to a lot of them as well. This becomes very helpful information towards my EQ that deals with employee/customer relationships within the store.

Extra March Blog

I have started to learn how to do order forms at my mentorship. The are fairly easy. Just very tedious. I may start doing full days on Sunday now and might also do weekdays to just knock out a few more hours during the week. I will be mentoring during spring break to help myself out as well.

As for my independent component, I might start watching comic book documentaries and taking Cornell Notes when I have time to do use up as some hours too.