Almost to the end!

I both loved and hated writing this research article for Mod2. I had a lot of work leading up to the due date, so I planned to finish my intro, results, and discussion Friday night and then fix them up Saturday during office hours… Except that trying to get work done in my bed late at night is always a bad idea… so this happened:
 

It left me with a lot of work to finish on Saturday, but overall I’d say I’m pretty satisfied with the results! The research article was a lot of work and required a lot of thinking and planning, but I really liked our experiments in Mod2 and then having to think of a way to frame it as a story. Here are some of my thoughts:

• I really liked Mod2 because of the different experiments that we did. I think that it’s really cool to see how we approached one central idea with multiple experiments.

• Science as storytelling is really cool because you can choose how to explain that one experiment led to the next and then plan how to order your figures and writing to show that.

• The homework assignments proved to be a really helpful starting point. Although I changed a lot from my discussion outline, it was nice to see what my original ideas were and build off of that.

• The methods section was really difficult, but it was the only one I felt satisfied with upon completing it. Once I made all my methods corrections, I could move on, whereas I kept going back to the rest of the sections and adding more when I had new ideas.

• I’m so thankful to Noreen for having office hours on Saturday :) 

• I really struggled with the title and abstract on this one because I had trouble identifying the main conclusions that we came to. There were a lot of things we found out, and some of our results were surprising.

 Overall, I really liked this module and feel like writing this research article was helpful preparations for future papers that I will write!

Yay for almost being done with this semester!