{"id":1294,"date":"2022-04-12T19:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/premdm\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:03:50","slug":"final-thoughts-before-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/2022\/04\/12\/final-thoughts-before-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Final thoughts before graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by Dong, 2021 Cohort<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For my final piece this year, I am writing to share some personal tips that I<br>learned during the 8-month experience in pre-MDM! Let\u2019s get started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Course overviews<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of courses in our program. My favourites are Pitch &amp;<br>Presentation &#8211; Aida and Multiple Media &#8211; Jason. Why? Because everything in<br>both pre-MDM and MDM is agile, which requires a prompt response and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>continuous iterations to create dynamic prototypes. So as for the technical<br>language part, Aida offers us real rehearsals for transition in Pitch and<br>Presentation. Imagine you are standing in front of a crowd, so you have to<br>gather your fragmentary thoughts off the cuff and overcome your fears to<br>speak and persuade at the same time. I also heard this was the most<br>challenging thing for the majority of pre-MDM people, even before my<br>generation. Fortunately, you shall grow a lot in this course. As for Jason\u2019s class,<br>he is super funny and shows us a good flow to learn product making,<br>systematically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\"><li>Things to remember in Pre-MDM<br>So what can you do when you enter this program? Here are some suggestions<br>for you:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Be serious with every single opportunity to express your opinions (in terms<br>of teamwork or assigned homework). We have been protected by Aida and<br>Jason so well, but it\u2019s more difficult than you think, if you really want to find a<br>job in the \u201cEnglish-speaking\u201d world. So they provide you with trials and<br>opportunities to make mistakes and give you constructive feedback,<br>accordingly. I love them and hope everything will be great with them.<\/li><li>Being able to self-organize is extremely important, no matter if you are a<br>graduate student or a workplace newbie, which means you have to learn as<br>you go and by yourself, most of the time. Therefore, you have to understand<br>your goal and execute it with a strong motivation.<\/li><li>Don\u2019t be afraid of team conflict. This is normal; be nice and keep<br>communication open with everyone, until you all find a solution.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\"><li>My future plans for MDM<br>It really depends on what kind of team members I\u2019m going to meet. But in<br>general, I want to be a coordinator or a product manager. I have found my<br>interests in all future courses. They require English proficiency, and I\u2019m going to<br>keep on working on this!<br>I did really enjoy the time I spent on this hybrid program (we currently have 3<br>people including me in China, and the rest in Canada). I love Sifan, Cassie,<br>Nima, Tao, Fang, Xiao, Ruby, Octavia, Oscar, and I also love Aida, Jason, Simran,<br>Iris, and every guest speaker that came to our class. I learned a lot from them,<br>and they\u2019re my life treasure for sure!<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Dong, 2021 Cohort<br \/>\nFor my final piece this year, I am writing to share some personal tips that I learned during the 8-month experience in pre-MDM! Let\u2019s get started! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/2022\/04\/12\/final-thoughts-before-graduation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Final thoughts before graduation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,3],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentexperience","tag-centre-for-digital-media","tag-premdm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}