Clark's Reflection

Clark May II

Dr. Ott

Personal Finance

17 January 2020

Reflection

My expectations going into Personal Finance this year were much different than my expectations last year. This year, I was expecting to really build on all the knowledge I had learned from last year. In the course this year, I really felt as if I could dive deeper into my topics of interest, especially stock options. Being able to read my own book allowed me to truly pursue my interests. I got the chance to present on my book and my topic to the class and I really enjoyed the extra work I had to do for being a returning student. As I said, it allowed me to further delve into topics of my interest and the extra presentation I had to do enabled me to share my prior knowledge, and I feel as if my experience was utilized very well throughout the time of the course. I was able to take more of a leadership role and I thoroughly enjoyed helping other classmates with projects we had done last year. This is not to say that the course was a repeat of last year or not challenging though. We did a lot of new projects such as looking for quadplexes in different cities and using charts, historical data, and technical strategies to choose whether or not to invest in stocks. Reading my book on advanced stock option strategies has been one of the most difficult tasks that I have taken on and it has proven to be one of the most informative and intriguing projects I’ve ever done. It’s taught me so much about the complex world of trading stock options and it has introduced me to information I will need if I choose to go down the route of options trading.––

The last reason why I loved this course was that it has made me feel more prepared and confident for the A-Term I am leading with Sierra in March. Being in this class has shown me great teaching strategies that we will use during the A-Term and there are many activities we’ve done that we will take inspiration from to make our course more interesting and fun. The lessons I’ve learned this year are so valuable and I can’t wait to take the information I’ve learned from this class and introduce it to the Investing A-Term class in a few months. Personal Finance has been the most valuable course I’ve taken at Post Oak and all of the information will help me in the future when I begin on my financial journey.