“The difficult I do immediately. The impossible just takes a little longer” (n.d.). Today we watched a video about doing things that are hard. I am not sure where the quote above came from. I recall hearing it in 1997 while in electrical engineering school. Although I did not complete electrical engineering school, it was not because it was difficult. It was because Microsoft released Windows NT Server and I was intrigued. This was my transition from electrical engineering to systems engineering.
This quote has been used several times to get me through many things in life. I am a little different from most. Everything I start, I usually finish. This is in part to how I was raised. I will admit, I evelauate task before taking them on to assess the difficulty. The next step is to determine if the task is something I can do immediately or do I need to plan a better time to complete that task.
I will admint, being in a room with 26 other people with the same goal of graduating from this program was a weight off my shoulders. I have been enrolled in doctoral programs before where I was on an island alone. I did not have my project topic in mind and was glad to learn that I was not the only one. We discused imposter syndrome earlier in the class and being amoungst peers helped alleveate some of the imposter syndrome. Then, the computer science department entered the room. To the general public, computer science, information technology, and management information systems are very similar fields. To those of us who work in information technology, we know there is a clear separation between the fields. When Dr. Kwak started talking about his research interested and R programing, imposter syndrome quickly set in again. I felt like I did not belong in the room. I felt like the program was going to be very difficult at that point. After talking to my peers I discovered we all had the same feelings. So as I progress through this program one day at a time I will keep repeating the same phrase. “The difficult I do immediately. The impossible just takes a little longer” (n.d.).
