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ANDREA: Hi there.

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This is Andrea's
v-log for the 13th

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of January in regards
to the class yesterday,

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which I guess would have been
class six, where basically, we

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sat down and did a table
read of most of the scripts.

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And it was a fairly good day.

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I gained an appreciation
for how difficult

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it is to distill
all of your ideas

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down into a small, really good,
compact, and compelling story.

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And so I thought it
was really useful.

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I hope some of
the other students

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also thought it
was pretty useful.

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I know it's really difficult
to stand in the line of fire

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of six, seven, eight
other people who are all

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critiquing you but
I think you guys

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all did a really wonderful job.

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And yes, I would want to
watch all of your movies.

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I think they would
be all awesome.

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So I actually have a couple
of confessions to make.

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First of all, I'm feeling
much better today.

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So I'm much more
hopeful about being

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able to complete the
assignment of actually doing

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some filming in
the next few days

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since I have most
of my voice back

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and I just had to basically
sleep all night last night.

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But my confession is
actually that I've

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considered dropping
or at least reducing

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down to listener status in this
class seven or eight times.

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It's been probably one of
the most difficult classes

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I've ever taken and
that's saying something,

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since I was a chemistry
major and I'm also

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in business school.

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But I think it
highlights that we

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have a lot of potential
psychological blocks

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and it's really
instructive to try to get

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over these mental blocks.

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And one of them, of course,
for me is being on video

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and being photographed.

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That's one of them
but another one

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was sort of shifting
my mindset from sort

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of being a product
manager, which is what I

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was prior to coming to school.

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I was very
business-oriented mindset

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and getting back into
the educational mindset.

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And I think that
that has changed--

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I don't want to say, oh my
gosh, it's changed my life.

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But in a sense,
it's why I decided

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to step back from business
and to sort of recapture

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my love of science, of making
people successful in science,

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whether it's small children or
other adults who are starting

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their own businesses.

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That's really why I
came to business school.

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And I think this dovetails
actually really nicely

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in with this whole mission.

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So I'm glad I
haven't dropped yet

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and I'm really hopeful that
I can continue my momentum

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and basically
complete everything.

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And I know it's not
going to be perfect.

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That's another big mental
block that sometimes we

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cling on a lot to perfection.

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And I know it's going to be a
pretty rough cut by next week

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but it'll be a lot of fun.

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So cheers, everyone.