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Theys’ BEP struggles Theys started with his Bachelor End Project in November. He will tell you about the problems he faced during his BEP and the lessons he learned from it. Hopefully, you will learn something from his struggles as well. Text: Theys Andriesse
project: the background research on the topic. Each BEP has its own story. For most people, Learning new things is actually one of the a story with lots of ups and downs in the most exciting things that there is. But, in a BEP process. You need to face certain burdens, it is not only about researching things, but also and I discovered that one burden was way about being independent more difficult to overcome in making choices on than others: motivating what you really want to myself. I received great “Learning new support of my coordinators address in your report. and a fun topic, but still things is actually Because otherwise, what is the use of it? there was this one thing that Since it took a the most exciting failed my BEP of becoming a true success. lot of time finding out Other than most people, things that there is.” what I really wanted in I started my BEP in Q2 this project, my main since this was the best struggle was motivating option time wise, due to myself. After a while each my courses and Enactus board year. My task took a lot of time, because there were coordinator was really flexible with this, days when I was just spinning around in and therefore I had a nice start with a fun my chair not doing anything. And then a topic: Sustainable energy cooperatives. second problem occurred: planning and And specifically, which aspects foster the delivering many things a bit late. Actually, this development of them. I had to create my own is something which I am also doing for this framework based on literature, which should article: not knowing what exactly to write about my BEP, and therefore taking a make clear which aspects are the most lot of time finishing the text. Perhaps, it is just important of these cooperatives in the who I am and how I work. During the entire Netherlands and Spain. It sounded really fun and challenging to BEP process, my lesson was that it is not bad think about creating my own framework, to sometimes think very thoroughly before I and I really liked the starting phase of the talk or put something on paper.
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