A reflection

Like another other blogs I have, I would like to share my personal reflection, having spent three years in the course. Though it is not about any social enterprise, I feel that BZSE is the stepping stone for any aspiring social entrepreneur

First of all, I came to BZSE with the hopes of learning more on the humanities side, rather than the business side. Alas, I was pretty disappointed that it did not turn out how I wanted it to be. But, I have learnt so much in this course that I am certain that I will not be able to learn elsewhere.

Does BZSE push me out of my comfort zone? Of course. The projects thrown to us, the internship, the lecturers, expectations, so on and so forth. Like any other thing, there is room for improvement which I had shared with a few lecturers during a chit chat session, but it is a great course.

So how is it a stepping stone? Personally, I feel that it makes us realise if we want to help out society, to be a social entrepreneur or not. And it doesn't stop there. It gets us thinking deeply, on who we want to help, which particular beneficiaries, and how can we help them. A childish thinking that we may have from secondary school will definitely not be sufficient or even pass at the current stage we are at. But it gets us thinking more maturely. The realisation, the desire to serve a certain group, this is what I feel BZSE has done to their students.

What about my learning journey then? Well, first of all, some projects thrown to us includes implementation of certain ideas we have. We have to launch our ideas and it is not just stuck on paper. What does it means? It simply means that we aren't just going to stay as thinker bur rather, doer. "Talk is cheap", is what people often say. BZSE definite make sure we do not just talk the talk, but walk the talk.

And what about internship? For me, I was at Weekender, a new social enterprise. It was both exhausting but fulfilling. I have learnt so much from this one experience. From mundane things such as marketing to recruiting workers, it threw me so far out of my comfort zone that I wish I can just crawl back in. But it was such a learning experience that I will not trade it in for any other possible internship opportunity.

All in all, I will not and have never regretted joining BZSE. From a childish and immature individual to someone that can probably make more sense now, I do hope that future aspiring social entrepreneur find out what is important to them and how they want to make a change. But for that change to happen, there has got to be a change within us.