It's pretty crazy to think we're more than 2/3 of the way done at this point, and the Mod2 research paper was a pretty good culminating assignment to signify everything we've learned about scientific writing this semester so far. But now we're in the home stretch!
If anything this paper has proven that writing a scientific paper is hard, and you'll never ever feel like it's totally finished and you've done everything you could, even if it's your 50th time reading it through. The page limit was surprisingly such a struggle to fit into, and I definitely spent nearly as long shortening my paper as actually writing it. And even more so with the full-length paper than with the data summary, it's surprising how everyone's paper can be so different, even though we all did the same experiments and analysis, based on what points people choose to focus on and what stories different people tell. Something I definitely got from this assignment is that you can't use every bit of information in the final paper, and that's okay.
Time management around such a huge assignment was definitely really stressful (ahhhh), but thanks to all the teaching staff for all their extra office hours and help :')
Going into Mod3, I'm really excited to build our own biological batteries (obviously) and to have a completely different final assignment format that lets us present our own research ideas, which is equally good practice as writing up our results in a paper. One more module to go, we can do it!!!
(also, writing/seeing these blog posts has seriously enlightened me on the number of memes in existence on the internet?? Clearly I'm not accustomed to blogging)
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