Time is moving by quickly. We are now just 22 school days left until Capstone Night. Surprisingly, I am feeling good. I feel confident. I do not know whether it is because I am truly confident or whether I am just so numb to everything that my stress doesn't register with me. I am pretty shocked at how confident I am, because usually I am freaking out at a time like this. I guess it is a testament to how much work I have put in and how Capstone has changed my perception on time. I think Capstone has also allowed me to manage my stress and expectation levels much more accurately. I am more aware of my capabilities and I guess I believe I can pull this off. My draft of the result is coming along. I actually finished my draft. I didn't realize that we just had to include the charts and table. I thought we had to write something extra. I then realized that it was just the charts and tables, which I already had. I believe I am track to complete my project and my paper by December 21st. All I have to do is write my discussion, edit the results, edit my discussion, write my conclusion, edit my conclusion, edit my bibliography, and then I am done.
This week, I took it pretty easy. I finished my results, but other than that, I haven't really done anything. I did start working on a presentation for my results which I have to present next week. I haven't started working on my discussion, but I believe that I can get it done very quickly. Next week, I would like to finish my first draft of my discussion. For my discussion, I need to include other sources, since most of my results will just be hypothetical. I will use this to answer my hypothesis in a theoretical sense. I also have to present my results next week. I have a lot of work to do, but I believe I will get it done. Tags: Discussion, Forward, Presentation, Projects, Results, Time Management
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Happy Thanksgiving guys! This blog will be pretty short since this week was a short week. I'm sitting at home and enjoying some down time and watching Friends Thanksgiving reruns on t.v. . Unfortunately, I don't think that will last long. This week was a short week. We had class Monday and Tuesday, but Wednesday was a half-day because of Thanksgiving and the long weekend. On Monday, I was able to finish most of my discussion. I also edited the website and redid the Gantt chart to accurately reflect the timeline it should have taken to do the experiment. On Tuesday, I took my senior portrait, so I was late to class. Once I got there, I was feeling unsure about how to proceed. I got Ms. Crudale to sign my task sheet so I didn't have to worry about it being incomplete. I finished the discussion yesterday. The hardest part was incorporating the hypothesis and finding research to support the hypothesis one way or the other. With the help of Ms. Crudale, I was able to find some research and was able to use that in my discussion. I found that theoretically, my hypothesis should be true. I also decided to add a section about ways to troubleshoot the issues I was having doing the experiment and a section on what the theoretical results would mean going forward. Next week, I will begin the editing process. I think that I need to do a lot of editing because I don't think the draft was my best work. I will also begin working on the conclusion.
Other than that, I will try to go shopping this weekend for all the sales. I have a lot of homework to do, mainly for English and Calculus, so I will try to find some time to do that. I will also try to finish some college essays for a few applications that I want to submit before December 1. On the note of Thanksgiving, I am very thankful for all the experiences Capstone gave me because those experiences gave me the chance to grow and reflect on myself. I am thankful for my family and friends. Mostly, I am thankful for myself, for being there for me, and for just being amazing. Happy Thanksgiving! Tags: Discussion, Planning, Projects, Forward What have I done? Why did I do this? Did I put too much work on myself?
These were the questions racing through my mind this week. You see, I finished the results last week and decided I would work on the discussion this week. I forgot this is a short week, so I didn't have a lot of time to work on the discussion. At the beginning of the week, which was Tuesday because Monday was the day we observed Veteran's Day, Ms. Crudale gave us a task sheet to help us plan our week and next week, which will also be a short week due to Thanksgiving holidays. I thought that I would have ample time to complete everything I needed to, so I wrote that I would finish my initial discussion draft, redo my Gantt Chart, and update and revise my website. I didn't realize how much work goes into writing a discussion. On Wednesday and Thursday, we had a half-day for conferences, so between these two days, I had Capstone 2 for about 2 hours. On Friday, we had a 2 hour delay because of the snow and rain that fell the night before. We had Capstone for 35 minutes, but that time went into work for National Honor Society, which would be right after the class ended (we had Capstone last). In addition, I've been feeling under-the-weather the whole week. I've had a sore throat and have just been exhausted all week. I have had no energy to do mundane tasks, let alone my school work. Unfortunately to say, I've been slacking off all week. I wrote about one paragraph of my discussion. but other than that, I've just been staring at a blank screen waiting for the words to come to my brain and for my hands to subsequently type them. With that being said, I think next week I need to work on being more productive. During those moments of writer's block, I could be doing other work so later on it is easier for me and I have less work. I need to work on my time management as well. Granted, I had a calculus exam which I was studying for all week, but I should have enough time in the day to get most of what I need to get done done. Hopefully, next week I can put these skills to work and be extremely productive. If I can finish by Wednesday, I can give myself a semi-break over Thanksgiving weekend. Fingers crossed! P.S.- The image below is a Tamil meme that is me looking at my results :D ! P.P.S. - It just means "Friend, results have come, I've looked and I've passed! You..." Friend replies, "Oh, you use "All Clear" shampoo huh? I use Head and Shoulders bro! Tags: Time Management, Results, Reflection, Productivity, Planning, Discussion This week was actually really good for me. I finished my SAT Subject Tests over the weekend. I think I did better than I expected to, especially in the physics. Now all that's left is for the results to come in. I am done with standardized testing and I am done with the SATs for the foreseeable future. I am really excited now because I can focus all my energy and all my effort into my college applications and my schoolwork, including Capstone. This week, I began writing up my results on Monday. I began figuring out how everything should be formatted. We didn't have school on Tuesday because of Election Day, which I was really happy about. It wasn't so much of a day off though, as I had a lot of school work I had to catch up on that I procrastinated on. Still, I got it done. On Wednesday, I didn't come to school. This week was the end of Daylight Savings Time and that in combination with the changing weather really affected my physical and mental health, not to mention my mother's health. I decided to take a mental health day to recuperate. I took it pretty easy Wednesday. I did some work for my other classes, mainly my project for ECE English and notes and homework for ECE Calculus. In the evening, I went to the Open House that was happening at the school. I had already said I was going to be there, so I stuck to my work and went, which I am very proud of myself for doing. The event was only 3 hours, but by the end I was truly exhausted. I couldn't keep my eyes open. I guess I still haven't gotten used to the time change, which is something I will need to work on this week.
On Thursday, I managed to finish my results section. I thought that I needed to add some additional information that I actually did not need. Once I confirmed this fact with Ms. Crudale, I went ahead and shared it with her so she could provide me some feedback. This means that this weekend, I don't have any Capstone work which leaves me free to focus on some things I need to get done for applications and some of my other classes. This week, I was actually much more productive than I thought I was or than I felt. I am very happy that I was this productive. Next week I need to write my discussion section, so I would like to work on staying on task. I am hoping to finish the drafts before Thanksgiving so that way I don't have any work over the long weekend for this class. Let's see how next week turns out. Tags: Reflection, Results, Blogs, Planning, Discussion, Time Management, Productivity This week was hard, but I made it to the end of the week. It was the last week of the quarter, but luckily I had stayed on top of my work throughout the semester, so I didn't have any late work to complete and hand in, on top of the other work we are given in class. That was really helpful, and I have only past Shubhangy to thank. So thanks past me. But I did procrastinate in studying for my SAT Subject Tests, so that wasn't good. But the good news is that I didn't have a lot of work to do in capstone this week, so I spent a lot of time studying for the exams. I also didn't have as much homework as I did in the past few weeks, so I spent a lot more time studying for the exams than I was able to last time. This week I also finished two of my college applications and submitted them. One was Johns Hopkins University, which was my first choice school. I am really hoping all the research I have done over the past few years with scientists from the School of Medicine will give me an edge over the competition. My statistics are pretty average for their standards, which is good in my case because I am applying early decision, so the acceptance rate is higher. I also have a lot of extra-curriculars, so I am hoping all of this gives me an edge over the competition. I also applied to University of Chicago. I hope my essays and extra-curriculars will give me an edge there as well. Overall, I am glad I got two of my applications done, as it was a huge relief to finally be done with those. I am also glad this is my last standardized exam tomorrow. After this I will be done with standardized testing and SATs and will be fully committed to myself, my health, and my schoolwork.
In regards to the capstone project, I did receive some preliminary data from my mentors, as I think I mentioned last week. I spoke with my mentor and discussed the data. The data showed that the transfection didn't work and the cells did not express the gene the way we wanted it to. We will have to go back and redo the transfection in order to get the proper gene expression. This is the only data I will be receiving, so for now, I will have to write my results on this. It sucks that I wasn't able to complete my capstone experiment properly, because at first, I was truly excited to be doing this project and was fully invested in it. But sometimes life doesn't go the way you expect it to. You can do everything right, but sometime the unexpected happens. When that happens you have to make the best of it. This week I was much better at being flexible, since so many things were going on, but I managed them well and didn't have a mental breakdown. Next week I want to work on my productivity, since my results section is due next week. This week, Ms. Crudale challenged me to be more positive in my blogs, which I said I was going to do at the beginning of the year, so that's why this blog sounds more positive than usual. I am hoping next week will be even better so my blog is even more positive. Tags: Productivity, Reflection, Project, Results, Planning, Time Management |
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