It’s not that I don’t like planning — I just don’t like planning things really far into the future. In fact, I love planning once I find something I really want to do, and often spend hours researching and planning out important details. However, I focus most of my energy on planning those attainable, next-step […]
ENVS 400: Capstone
These posts contain my thoughts and reflections throughout the two semester process of researching, writing, and creating my capstone.
Slowly But Surely: Presenting Draft #2
After meeting with Liz (our new LC Teacher of the Year, whoohoo!), I had a lot to work on. I spent a lot of time on my results section, added all the data from my survey, and took out some discussion material from my results. It made it easier to flesh out my discussion once […]
Diving In
News flash: I have resumed work on my capstone!! After a somewhat lengthy vacation away from the land of ENVS 400, I have returned and am ready to get back to work. I had a chance to meet with Liz today, though her office hours are a hot commodity these days. I had eight questions […]
The Final Stretch
It’s amazing what a week can do! I went to Iceland for spring break and didn’t think about school at all for 5 days (oops, don’t tell Liz!) and it was exactly what I needed. I got some distance from my thesis, and am now able to look at it with fresh eyes. It was […]
Design Fiend
Four infographic/posters later, and I still love it! I really enjoyed making the poster actually; I’m not sure how successful it actually is, and I think I will need to revise my “conclusion” and “results” sections, but so far I’m happy with it! I really tried to boil it down to the most essential information, […]
Netiquette: A few first drafts
Wow. I’m slightly speechless/exhausted right now but I will try to create a coherent post! This week was basically full to the brim with thesis. There were a lot of little things to clean up, as well as a lot of expanding to be done. I’ll split my thoughts up into my scholarly essay experience and […]