Week 4. Post 2.

 Discuss how teamwork in your CSC courses at Berea have influenced your internship experience.

Last few days I and my co-worker have been working on developing a delete file functionality for our application; we wanted the files that are deleted in the repository on GitHub to be deleted in our database system as well. At first, it sounded very complex to me because it is not just adding one method - it is a lot of source code to read and understand in the first place. My first thought was: "This is very difficult, I do not have vast experience working with event listeners in Java and writing queries". That meant to me that it is going to be challenging; however, I have a deadline for this task and there is not much time to sit and complain about the difficulty of the task. I have come to this internship with the assumption that I can do everything on my own by watching tutorials and reading articles on how to implement certain features. However, that assumption was not helpful and wrong. Being an introvert myself, it is always hard for me to reach out to people since it puts me in a vulnerable position that makes me feel uncomfortable. 

However, after spending almost a day watching Udemy courses on how the event listeners work in Java, I have realized that all my work day was spent on this and I did not even get to the coding part. On the contrary, I noticed that my co-worker is never afraid to ask questions from our mentor and constantly comes to him to stay on track. I noticed that it was working well for him and I decided to step out and do the same; it helped me enormously. Next time, I will try to expose myself more to asking questions from my mentor as it is a faster and more efficient way to learn complex concepts; rather than having the mindset of "everything by myself" and still being lost at the end of day. I will try to give myself a rule of asking at least 3 well-thought questions from my mentor whenever I feel overwhelmed with complex concepts and I will keep track if I have done that in my weekly tracker.