Today, Saturday April 13th, is two days after I've given my Senior Thesis presentation. After 8 long months and a lot of preparing, I finally presented all of my research and data. And I honestly think it went really well. I felt the most prepared for this presentation than I had for any other presentation that I've given in my college career. And that's saying something. I cannot even begin to express the level of happiness that I have now that I've finally presented my work. It is seriously the biggest weight lifted off of my shoulders. But now I get to look forward to all of the edits I need to make for my paper.
I think the most difficult part for me on Thursday was figuring out how to coherently answer the questions that the faculty had for me. I knew my topic and I tried my best to anticipate what the questions would be, but even with that preparation, I still struggled. One of the main things that the professors wanted me to answer was if a facilitator was always necessary and are there some types of online trainings that would work. In my head I believe that I had good answers, but the words were not coming out the way I intended so I obviously need to spend more time thinking those through and adding them to my paper.
Now that I finally have feedback from Dr. Bisha on my initial first draft of my paper, I will be able to go in and actually make all of those changes. And luckily, I have three weeks to do it. The most tedious part about revising my paper is the fact that all of my central and peripheral processing information is not included, since I came up with that idea about a week and a half ago. Not that any of it is hard, but I will need to still add more into my literature review, probably spice up my method section a little bit, and then really make a big difference into my data analysis. I think the way I plan to attack this is to print out copies of each section and then go through with a red marker and fill in the pieces that need to be added and even taken out. Once I go through that for my lit review and data analysis, I will continue to send my updated copies to Dr. Bisha, as well as maybe Dr. Vrooman just to make sure I don't miss any important pieces of information and that it all sounds coherent.
As I go through this process, I will give two more updates on how things are going and different feedback that I'm given from my professors. Hopefully I can knock the majority of this out the week we get back from Easter Break, which is in two weeks. That way I can stop worrying about all of this as soon as possible.
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