Just Keep Moving The Line

August 16th, 2022

Movin' On Up

Following two months of revisions and IRB communications, I've finally begun my project and switched into a higher gear in order to complete a sizeable amount of work in three and a half weeks. After gaining approval on the fourth, I was able to start putting out a call for participants which yielded smaller results than I initially anticipated. Even though my initial aim for the project was slated to be twenty participants, I became weary of the number and organizing that many people in the short time I had left of the summer.

I currently am in my most productive section of my summer, along with two other projects I also realized I had to prep this one to it's final form before the beginning of the school year, and so I halved by number, accepting 10 participants.

In The Hurricane of Scheduling

As I mentioned, I'm in the peak busyness of my summer. The past few days have been filled with late nights and almost non-stop working. Everyday I've woken up to a frenzy of thoughts that occupied my head featuring, deadlines, outside work inquiries, and trying my best to plan out a speck of a social life as my summer begins to close. In spite of it all, I'm hopeful to getting everything done on time. With the mounting pressures of graduate school applications coming in fall, I'm determined to.

Reaching For The Finish Line

Since the beginning of the summer, I had slightly been dreading the end. It served as a landmark for so many things. The last year of undergraduate school, the ending of my projects, and the beginning of graduate school prospects. In ways it felt like the beginning of the end, that come September fifth, I would have reached the peak of my academic limits.

My reality isn't far from that, but I've found that my research experience has actually amplified my excitement for graduate school. I often find that I thrive in situations where I have multiple tasks demanding my attention, and this was no different. Sure, at moments it has been overwhelming, but I feel incredibly confident that this extra push and stressor will force me to make every bit of my work count more since I don't have time to re-try. I'm more motivated than ever to make every step count and come out on top of the mountain of work laid before me.