My Most Recent Challenging Learning Experience

samuel mbugua
Aug 28, 2017 · 2 min read

When i talk of the most recent challenging learning experience, the question you may ask yourself is “what do you consider challenging in learning?”. Well, Challenges have been and will always be there in our lives but how we logically approach, respond and overcome the hardship in them is what really defines us. That is one great thing i have learned at Andela over the past few weeks. It all started with the Home study curriculum and the proctor test, here i was required to learn a lot on my own. It is then that i realized my skills gaps between what i knew and what was required of me was quite large. In Andela you are sent the learning materials and work with them maybe from home. This was something new to me since i had been used to learning through a teacher student setup. But quitting was not an option for me so i had to reach out to those who can provide guidance and support,google became a close friend to me and from that i ended up learning a lot and managed all the way to the bootcamp. Its true like Andela says You Own Your Own, you learn how to learn and apply, am sure this a great way to prepare someone for even future challenges. At the Andela bootcamp is where your brain has to work and accept the changes showing up all the time and not forgetting to mention the few sleeping hours as i tried to grasp the new concepts. Here i realized that the tasks i had to solve were somehow way above my present skills, new terms are introduced, new software, new ways of solving things, like i had been used to html and css only for web development but awesome things like APIs are introduced.To handle all this i had to introduce a mindset that its an opportunity for me to learn all the new great things and as for now am all smiles as i thirst for more and more while trying to beat the time deadline. I think by now the story of most challenging is way gone in my mind and all i want now is to expand and grow my mind with feeding it with more and more. True This is Andela.

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