Spring Break

Over all my spring break was not that exciting. I did not go anywhere except for the last three days. My mom, sister, my friend, and I went to Chicago to go to the Loyola University weekend. I am thinking about attending this university and I wanted to go look and check it out to see if I would like it there. Even though it was cold, I think I will be attending Loyola in the fall. But besides that I stayed at home and hung out with friends that didn’t go anywhere for spring break as well.

As for my capstone project, I didn’t work too much on it. I did some research in the beginning of spring break, but towards the end I did not work on it as much. I didn’t want to do any school work during break. I am just ready for summer to be here! But I think that I was able to take some time off from working on the paper because all I have to do is develop a section 3 that matches section 4 and freshen up the beginning. Then I will be complete.

Writing this paper has taught me that you need to be able to do good research in order to have a strong paper. You can’t just take someone else’s work and rewrite it in your own words, making your paper into an informational dump. I also can not wait till the last minute to write my paper. I saw some people struggling with that and it was impossible for them to complete certain sections on time. Or they would stay up all night trying to write it and still wouldn’t get done. I just need to learn to do the work right away so at the end I am able to fix little things and be done with it all. But if I was able to change anything I did it would be my work effort towards my paper in the beginning. I did find a lot of research on my topic but when I got home I never took a lot of time to review that research. I would use mostly class time to get stuff done. This would cause my paper to sound repetitive because I would use similar research without even knowing it. I think if I spent more time out of class on my paper I would have been able to get it done faster and create better first drafts. But overall I think I did good with keeping up with the due dates and creating a good enough paper that I am able to work with and just fix little things here and there.