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After doing the final reflection assignment, I was able to reflect on the creative thinking course as a whole and come to conclusions about. Overall I feel like this course has helped me prepare for the outside world in terms of my future career life. This course has also helped pursue my creative side.

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Because my friend talked to me about him not being happy in AUC I applied the empathy phase by asking her some questions and trying to emphasize with the issues she faced so I could lead him to a solution for his issues.

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I was able to escape my comfort zone and try new workouts at be fit; I am trying to achieve a growth mindset by exploring new activities I have never before tried.

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Today I had to brainstorm for coming up with ideas for a photoshoot for my denim jacket startup business. Because I experienced a bit of mind block I decided to use the thinking tank method which really did help me, so I thought to myself how would Kim Jones or Virgil Abloh do this.

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This is an image of a few celebrities and their friends who have a podcast, ZAZA World, and have taught me the importance of friends and the importance of their encouragement of pursuing one's creativity.

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This is the artwork of a song by ASAP Rocky and three other artists that always gets me in the mood especially while creating any creative contents.

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After doing my creative CV, I was affected by it in the sense that I can now successfully write up my own CV and update and adjust it accordingly to the portions I want to apply for.

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A couple of weeks, I was able to complete my first job. I edit videos just for fun however, after a brand called Parallel, saw my videos the owner called and asked if I could create and edit a teaser video. I was able to successfully complete the task, and the video post got the highest views on Parallel's instagram page.

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I was able to get the chance to talk to Heba Serag El Din, the owner of fashion funds, and I was able to learn more about her career. She encouraged me to apply for an internship at her company, and I believe that I should as it will benefit me especially if I want to open my business. I also got the chance to talk to Mohanad Kojak,  who gave me great insights about Denim jackets. He was also nice enough to give me some contacts for a supplier. I feel that I have benefited a lot from the Youthout session, both for my startup business and future career.

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During my internship at the youth out competition I used the fluency activity. I was able to make a list of interview questions for the video Palm Hills was making for the judges and winning contestants.

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I interned at the Youth-out competition last Saturday and I was responsible of Palm Hills as a sponsor and gave interviews to several judges, from Farida Temraz to Jude Ben Halim, to Heba Serag El Din, to Mohanad Kojak. I took my professor's advice and I believe by completing internships and building a network will aid me in the job application process in the future.

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I re took the growth vs fixed mindset. quiz and I was able to progress a shift more toward the growth mindset than I did at the beginning of the semester and now I am divided between the fixed and growth mindset. Which is great progress as I now have balance between both.

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This is a picture of my sister, my cousins and I in our vacation home in Suez, in the winter of 2006. I have spent all my childhood with them and they have  had a huge impact on shaping my identity to this day. This was reflected in my personality test, which categorized me as the  protagonist type, as I always had the leadership role among my cousins.

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The recipe assignment was very beneficial for me because I felt like I was able to practice my creativity as well as reflecting on my identity, and understand myself more.

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I was able to learn how to create a cover letter for an internship after learning how to do my own CV, and I was able to successfully send it for the internship application. I am very proud of myself for being able to create my CV and cover latter.

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After taking the interest inventory test and 16 personality text, using convergent and divergent thinking I was able to conclude my career path which something that reassured me because I had an idea of what I was going to pursue in the future. I am now aware of the type of internships I should apply for, the courses I should take and how to prepare for this career path.

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Two days ago a woman from the career center came to and talked about the opportunities for internships and work experiences, I feel like I should start thinking about building my CV, and so I was able to create one with the guidance of my professor.

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By learning how to create a Journy Map I was able to summarize data in one map as a tool to help me further analyze everything. I feel like this tool would be very helpful for coming up with solutions for several

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here's a link of the solution or prototype my team and I made to suggest a solution for food waste trying to bring Egypt a step closer to achieve zero hunger, I feel that this challenge has aided me in mastering the concept of Design-Thinking which I believe will definitely benefit me in my future work life.

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I was able to create a persona for fast food and restaurant workers for the Zero Hunger challenge I believe that learning how to create a persona is pivotal especially that I want to open my own business.

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I was able to learn how to take the perfect picture at night by applying the fluency process, and taking many pictures.

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Here's a picture of the prototype I created with my group during the DOLABCO mini challenge in class activity. This was my first Design- Thinking challenge which I believe was very beneficial for me, although it was a very simple I believe it was a good warm activity for the coming one. I definitely learned how to compromise a little bit when working with a team, and maybe to put a little trust in other team members.

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Here are some of the sketches I made during the ideation phase for the DOLABCO challenge. I learned that I should disregard logic when coming up with ideas and encourage my creativity and wild notions, and this had affected the way I think and coming up with new ideas.

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Here's a picture I took when I was at IKEA for the DOLABCO project while I was making observations. I learned that observing is not asking questions, but observing people in their natural element in order to achieve accurate results.

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I decided to experiment and try using a disposable camera instead of taking normal pictures, for a change. After developing the pictures I was able to learn factors that might improve the picture outcomes, in a way it is considered to be part of the testing and feedback steps in the design thinking process. I am happy I can now adopt certain steps of the design thinking process in my daily life.

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I was able to get out of my comfort zone and post a video edit I made by merging several video clips I liked on instagram

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I was able to get out of my comfort zone and post a video edit I made by merging several video clips I liked on instagram

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this is the work of an Egyptian filmmaker and photographer, for Alexander Wang, whose success has always been an inspiration to me, especially when pursuing my creative side.

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After surveying and interviewing many individuals from my startup target audience and applying the empathy phase in the design thinking process I was able to conclude that the jackets they would purchase have the overall look of these designs

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After reflecting on the design thinking process i realized that I would benefit greatly from this process especially whilst pursuing my creative self.

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After taking the "Mind Set Quiz", I was categorized as “Fixed Mindset with some Growth Ideas” however I hope I can achieve a Growth Mindset by the end of the semester.

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Alexandria '04