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Today we started on our two compulsory courses, NVP and PCU. Of the two 3 hour lecture periods everyday the former takes the latter and latter the former. How was that for a pretentious sentence? Anywho NVP is here to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit in the lot of us while PCU is there to teach the lot of us how to express, professionally, just how inspired we are. All glibness aside, two important modules that most of us would never have taken of our own volition.

We broke the ice in PCU by being put into groups and being told to create a group presentation that would serve to introduce us all to the each other and to the rest of the class. This was followed by some other group activities and an introduction to the module.

In NVP we were given an introduction to the module and then told to write business cards for ourselves that, from how I understood it, had to be just one word that would show customers what value we would bring to them. Mine was tenacity, something I think is very important. Something too that I would display in the next activity.

Our next activity was a sales activity in which we had to sell a device that looked like a handless watch. We were to sell the device as anything as long as we did not add hands to it. Second time around we had the same task with the added constraint being that we could not add anything mechanical, electrical or anything else of that nature. Our team decided that a powder shaker would be the best item to sell and even in the face of doubt we sold the, um, we sold the, the, we sold it well.