Still on my MBA journey. There is a saying that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a step and that persistence equals success. Success takes the time to develop, which means you will go through trials and errors along the way. So like in my previous posts,I have always complained about Data Analysis. I dreaded that course. Data Analysis keeps me awake at night asking myself how do I navigate this? Do I give up this MBA program because of Data Analysis? So this morning, I woke up , determined to face my fears and fight it. We had Data Analysis today being the 4th of February, I listened carefully for about one hour and I wasn’t able to understand what the lecturer was saying. Out of frustration and anger, I left the classroom and Toyin, our project manager called me immediately to find out why I left the classroom. I told her I was angry and frustrated and wanted to either end the program or defer the program and that the stress was getting to me. I really felt so down and discouraged today. She advised me and encouraged me again. I joined the class but nothing entered my head. After the class, we had Analysis of Business Problem, while the lecturer was discussing the cases he had earlier told us to study, all I was thinking about was how to understand Data Analysis. So after ABP, I decided that the best thing was for me to go back to to the first class since we have the recording. I decided to study it and remove fear of not understanding it.
Honestly, I will say that it was the best decision I took today. I am so happy to say that studying Data Analysis for about five hours today, I’m beginning to understand the course. At least I now know how probability works. Though is not yet time to celebrate but atleast I’m beginning to have confidence in myself that I can actually pull this MBA off despite my tight schedule. Today I had meetings with both my head teacher in the primary and the academic leaders in the secondary school and was able to still study for 5 hours after my classes today. This is all so exhausting but I will keep pushing. I struggle with a lot of things in this program but I’m so determined that I will take everything one step at a time until I settle well into the program. I have always been a bright focused student just that is been a long time I left classroom. Again because of my position in my 2 schools, my secretary and my IT staff do all my typings and computer works, I’ve forgotten how to use excel even slides, I’m laughing as I’m typing this honestly but is that bad. I’ve decided to use next week and brush myself up in those areas. Is really been a journey honestly but let’s keep our fingers crossed and see how next week goes for me.
