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1.      I will sell the company probably to a business or food and resource economics student looking to explore and capitalize on the medical marijuana industry within 5 years of business. A great selling point would be if recreational marijuana ever becomes legal in Florida, Mary Jane’s can expand to anyone 21 or older who uses the substance. 2.      Because I plan to have a career focused in journalism and working for big news organizations, I don’t have any interest in making Mary Jane’s a long-term job or family business. After starting the company and making enough profit to get myself an apartment in a city like New York or Chicago, I will sell the company and solely focus on my reporting career. 3.      In the beginning stages of Mary Jane’s, I was excited for the opportunities, but quickly realized there’s a lot of legalities around this industry. It would take a lot of time and court efforts...

1.      For this final reading reflection, I chose to read “Elon Musk,” a biography by Ashlee Vance. I thought this would be a great book to parallel with the one I read first about Steve Jobs, as people have coined Musk as Jobs’ predecessor of sorts. After reading the novel, I was surprised most that Musk’s dream is to colonize Mars. What I admire most about Musk is his drive – he moved from South Africa to Canada with nearly no money or job/schooling experience, then went to college to become an engineer, moved to Silicon Valley and started buying businesses just to recreate them. I least admire Musk’s sense of self grandeur, as he considers himself a genius and often does not-so-genius things (such as renting castles and sumo wrestlers for his parties, while hiring a knife thrower to throw a knife between a blindfolded Musk’s legs). As a young man, Musk faced adversity by not having much schooling and working blue collar jobs, just to gain the c...

1)     In order to be in good standing with my sorority, we must earn a certain amount of involvement points between each big function we have. Every semester before this one, I had been plenty involved by participating in volunteer opportunities and playing intramural sports. However, this semester I didn’t meet the minimum number of points and would pay a fine if I attended our semi-formal event. As a result of this, I disappointed my friends by not being there, and it was a bummer to my boyfriend we couldn’t attend. 2)     I believe part of the reason I wasn’t as involved was because I also had an internship this semester in which I spent my class-free days working in a newsroom as a reporter. It was hard for me to balance school work while focusing on preparing for my career, so adding social involvement was hard. If anything, failing at having a social life taught me I need better time management. I think it’d be helpful to tak...