My existence as a suffering college student

Assignment 6A – IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES IN ECONOMIC & REGULATORY TRENDS Economic Trends: China Transforms, and a Factory Owner Struggles to Follow Source:  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/technology/china-economy-manufacturing-labor-costs.html I think an opportunity exists here because factory owners like the one in the article need help with transitioning with the economy. The customers would be the factory owners who are struggling to keep up with the changing economic trends of China. The opportunity would be relatively hard to exploit because it would hard to earn the trust of the factory owners so they allow you to help them. I saw the opportunity in this because this could be a untapped career options that people have not realized they can do in China.  Economic Trends: How Tariffs Stained the Washing Machine Market Source:  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/business/economy/how-tariffs-stained-the-washing-machine-market.html I think there ...

Assignment 5A-IDENTIFYING LOCAL OPPORTUNITIES Youth vaping increases in Alachua County by  Precious Polycarpe on the Independent Florida Alligator :   https://www.alligator.org/news/youth-vaping-increases-in-alachua-county/article_91200192-1dd5-11e9-9850-bbdf28ac9a68.html This article that was written on Jan. 21, 2019; is about the raise of youth vaping in the County of Alachua and what's being done to stop it. The problem that is written in this article is how the amount of youth vaping in Alachua County has increase by 60 percent. Tobacco Free Alachua is bringing the Tobacco 21 movement to the county to combat the growing number. The movement aims to increase the age requirement to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21. They hope it will make it more difficult for underage tobacco users to get it from 18-year-old students. The people who have the problem are the youth who are adding to the statistics of raising amount vape users. Also the people who are trying to put a s...

Assignment 4A- FORMING AN OPPORTUNITY BELIEF I believe there is unmet opportunity in regards to danger of walking home alone at night. Anyone who has a lack of transportation and get home by walking usually late can relate to this. Even those who only have to walk short distances are in danger. I believe I can provide a product for this situation, a device alarm locator that g oes off when the user feels unsafe and it sends a GPS location to an emergency line. This is not a new problem, b y just the gender, 45%, of women said they do not feel safe w alking alone at night and that was from a survey made in 2014. To feel safe now, usually women use product that are made to protect them in moment of danger. This opportunity will still continue to exist until someone can create a product to stop it. #1: Early twenties female who walks long distances alone How often do you walk alone at night? -Usually three nights a week.  Do you carry anything that makes you feel safer on ...

Assignment 3A-YOUR ENTREPRENEURSHIP STORY My best story of entrepreneurship was when I and four other students were assigned to create a product that tackles biodiversity. In my 2018 summer semester, I took a course called Creativity in Action that encourages taking creative action to solve problems. The major goal of the course was to create a product that helps maintain biodiversity in a native ecosystem. The first task was to select an area that we knew best given our individual and group background, for example our hometowns. After much deliberation we choose the Everglades as it is in the state of Florida and major part of our ecosystem that affects all Floridians. The next task was to find a problem in that area that has affected its biodiversity. Our group decided to focus on bringing awareness to the importance of the Everglades as misinformation and unawareness are usually what cause people to cause ha...

Assignment 2A- BUG LIST The alarm going off on a phone Why it Exists: Alarm are meant to awaken someone from sleep, so it would need to be loud and annoying. So the sudden sound of an alarm will usually wake up from it. My room being colder then the rest of my apartment Why it Exists: Poor installation around room compared to the rest of the apartment. Another possible reason could be that the room is on the second floor. The cold weather in the city of Gainesville, Fl Why it Exists: The northern part of the Florida is colder than the southern part.  Having problem connecting to a school's Wi-fi Why it Exists: There is a ton of students using the same Wi-fi connection, so connecting to the Wi-fi will be much more difficult. The bus being packed at a certain time Why it Exists: T here is a lot of people who use the same route as others and tend to use the bus at the same time due to the bus schedules Walking up and down hills to get to class Why it Exists: The geography of ...

This is a test blog for my ENT 3003 class. This is the first blog of many (probably).