Day 7

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Today, I dedicated my time to work on my draft proposal and mini presentation that are due on Thursday and Friday, respectively. I struggled to figure out what the components of the question proposal draft should be, so I went to Matt Sargent to get a Question Plan sheet. I didn't know if we were supposed to answer each question individually exactly as the sheet said, so I decided to make an outline using the questions as a guidelines, only. I worked for 2 hours on my outline. I was relieved to find that we got an extension for the draft proposal, as I need clarification on what exactly the structure and content of the plan should be.

I met with Adrienne Bosworth, as she is also interested in the study of addictions. She recommended that I should look up articles from the journal called Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, which I already looked at but I will definitely expand my research on that journal. We talked about the wording of my question, and in total, the meeting extended to an hour.

I started looking for options for my co-curricular activities to relate to my question, and researched on that for about 45 minutes. I found the website for the Squamish Helping Hands Society to be really useful, as they take volunteers all year round with a one step process of filling in a single application.

Altogether, I found today not to be as productive as I wished it would be, but getting clarification in class tomorrow on the question proposal draft will definitely help. Also, I hope I don't get in trouble for distributing the Question Plan that Matt Sargent sent me (Note to self: apologize to Brian. I'm sorry, Brian).