Why did you enroll in this course?

I enrolled in this course for three reasons. The first reason I enrolled in this course was to have a class though might feel like a lecture isn’t a lecture. Though the class is a lecture it has aspects that most classes don’t have. The second reason I enrolled in the class because I get bored with hypothetical situations. Academic exercises can be very valuable, don’t get me wrong. You can fail with no consequences in these exercises, but soccer players don’t practice for fun. They practice to play an actual game against another team. I enrolled in this course, to play the real game not practice on the pitch. The final reason I enrolled in this course was to challenge myself. This course is nothing like anything I have done in the past, there is no right, no right answer, you sort of have either make it up at the beginning or make it up as you go. On top of the uncertainty, the task at hand is inherently difficult, to begin with. I am a sucker for a good problem and enjoy solving them, so I figured a class that would really challenge me, would be fun and interesting.

How do you envision this course making you a better student?

I envision this course making me better in four ways. The first way this course will make me better is by teaching me how to create an app and analyze the data gathered from this app. As a perspective Industrial engineer, building programs and analyzing basically exactly what I will be doing in the future, so to have real-world experience will be valuable to learn, valuable to people I can help during class, and valuable to my future. The second way I envision this course is by making me a better student is by giving me real-world experience. As I solve problems for this class, in the future, I will be able to reference them for ideas on how to solve my future problems. In my experience, the most creative solutions are the solutions borrowed for places that you have never heard off. By having experience, and something to look back on I will be able to solve more problems and create better solutions in the future. The third way I see this course making me a better student is through its ability to challenge to be able to handle more at a time, in a more efficient way. This course is very intensive and can cause a lot of stress Weightlifters, lift heavier and heavier weights, so they can get stronger. I hope that this course will stress me in ways that I can’t even imagine so that I leave the course with a stronger resilience to stress and juggling what life throws out me. The final way I hope the course will make me a better student by giving me a network of professors who I am close with and can run my ideas and issues by. Having someone who you know well and can ask questions to can be an invaluable resource to have. These mentors can lead you the right way so that you don’t make a wrong move. Otherwise, you are sort of flying blind.

Eyeglass Problem:

So to me, the logical solution is to train more eye doctors. The common sense answer right? This probably won’t work for two reasons. If you train a doctor he will move away because he will be able to afford to, and will want to leave for a better opportunity. It also quite difficult to train eye doctors in Africa, there aren’t the resources. So to solve the solution of not having doctors in the area. I would train a bunch of nurses to perform the simple tests regarding eyeglass fitting and then I would create a network of doctors through an online service who can provide care through facetime, or some type of face to face communication outlet. The more complicated test can be outsourced to mobile care centers. Now, these aren’t gonna be RV’s because they would never stand up to the roads in Kenya. They will be old safari vehicles which are cheap, reliable and have the perfect amount of space to conduct this eye exam. To create these glass I would get a conglomerate of companies like LensCrafters and such to lend expertise to create a factory. They will do this for the PR and here not really paying for it. Now how do you pay for it? You sell advertisement on the side of the vehicles. Have people face value for what they are getting. If they can’t afford to pay now, payment plan. Get donations for companies. Advertisement in the rooms and on the face to face communication system. Partner with US hospitals to help train their employees and have them provide the on-call experience. Take some Kenyan government money, if you can get some that isn’t going to corruption. To pay for training and the doctors on the ground, I would probably get a couple of doctors to come over in shifts and slowly train them.