CEO has been a journey, and one that I will never forget. The course has taught me how to make professional connections, managing time management, and that nobody likes a procrastinator. I’m extremely proud of Nick and all of my peers surrounding me. We’ve truly worked so hard to create the Tradeshow and all the businesses that followed. A highlight I have from this class was prepping for the class business. It was the day before the 5k, and many CEO students showed up at Fletchers to prepare our event. After, I helped our CEO, Lilli, package up orders. While I was absolutely exhausted after, it was a fun environment to be a part of. A highlight from Nick would be when he uses voice-to-text. That same prep day, a group of CEO students and Nick were sitting around, when he started to text someone back. However, he was using his voice text to communicate back. This reminded me of my mom’s biological dad who also uses voice-to-text, and it made me laugh. To this day I still think it is funny, and it makes me laugh to think of our little inside joke. The downside to my CEO experience is the wake up time. As the year progressed, my senioritis started to worsen. As stupid as it sounds, I became extremely unmotivated to do my work and to show up. For me, getting to class on time became immensely harder. Our homebase started to get farther from my house as well, which did not help. I had to learn the hard way to stay organized, when one day I slept through my CEO alarm. I didn’t wake up until 7:30. I was 45 minutes late, and I was extremely embarrassed in myself. Becoming that late motivated me to never late that happen again. Even though I was waking up extremely early, I would not change the session I’m in. I would have not made some of my closest friends, Eleanor and Lilli. I went into CEO having no friends, however they quickly became some of my closest. I love that we all go to different schools, yet still make time for each other. If they were not in CEO, my experience would have been drastically different.