Where should you be in your research journey? Are you there?
I have completed my research journey. With my paper complete and a presentation was given on it, the final thing for me to do is work on my publication.
What issues did you hit, and what is your plan to overcome them?
I did not run into any issues. I got my paper in early for a review by my professor.
What did you do to make progress this week? Is it more, or less, than you expected to do (use last week's items to guide this)
This week I gave a presentation on my paper to my peers.
What was the most surprising thing you learned about research this term?
What I found while writing my paper in regards to research is that more is not always better. A strategy I used is one I am ultimately regretting, which is to find papers or articles and to pull just a small amount of information from it. What I wished I did instead was to keep my focus on 3-4 papers and to concretely connect them and find a common ground of research and fact.
How will you make use of this research in your future CIS career?
To relate this research project to a more fundamental CIS level, I found that technology is getting older by the year. In the grand scheme of things, the last fifty years of research and technology is a short amount of time. But, given the lifespan of a human, the rate at which it changes is phenomenal. From the calculator to Google, to ChatGPT, I found that progress continues to march forward and the last thing we should let ourselves succumb to is stagnation. I will use one specific skill I learned in this class for the rest of my life: check in on your progress, create milestones, and to always do SOMETHING to move yourself forward. The little efforts we make along the way add up in tremendous quantity.
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