Remember when you were a little kid and your parents would track your growth on a door frame with a marker? Each mark was titled with your age, date, or some other significant event in your life. Every three weeks on this campus, I find myself making another mark. Returning from externship, it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to look back at a block and observed my growth. With each block, each cuisine, and each chef, I’ve redeveloped some part of my perspective.

To be honest, I’ve been anxiously anticipating the completion of L block since about the second week. Most individuals in the culinary field are not built well to sit in a classroom. I am most definitely in this class of individuals. However, I greatly value everything that I have been exposed to during L block, as it has generated my intense excitement for my future. But I also believe I would have taken even more away from the past six weeks of academic classes if I was allowed to stand up in a pair of checks for the entire duration of the class. Regardless, once again I am gathering and reflecting upon the lessons I have learned in each of my classes.

Initially I found Intro to Management to be a very hard class to relate to. I hadn’t and still do not expect to manage people for quite some time. However, I have since learned that the class is also very much about leading and inspiring people, which can become a role of mine at any given time. I have also come to realize that this is a class that is intended to be revisited at appropriate moments in my career. Much of the material appears obvious, but this is because I am currently the person being inspirited, lead, and managed. As a person who manages, I will have to remind myself to have patience, teach kindly, and inspire whenever possible. The guidelines which I have learned in Management will develop with me as I do in my own career.