Today was the last day of senior project. I spent my day finishing my slides and paper. I also then went through all my write ups and my slides to make sure I was satisfied with how they turned out and do any final edits. I feel ready for express fest tomorrow and I'm thankful for all I learned these past 2 weeks.
Todays hours: 3
Total hours: 80
Today was another writing and presentation day. I finished transferring some of my writing to the slides, and did the write up for the student interview. I made sure all my writeups were complete except one (which I'll do tomorrow) and same with my slides. I added some images to the end of each write up and made a credits slide. All I have left to do tomorrow is finish a bit of the last write up, finish the corresponding slide, and finish my essay!
Todays hours: 4
Total hours: 77
This second week of senior project, I had a lot more writing to do than the first week, as well as beginning my essay and final slides, and non-project things on my plate as well. Through all of this, I learned how to budget and evenly distribute my time while still getting things done and getting my hours in. I definitely struggled at first with just sitting and writing, because I get distracted very easily, but I eventually was able to hunker down and focus. I also struggled to work on days I had other commitments or appointments, but since that was a few days this week I pretty quickly realized I didn’t have a choice and I had to put the work in. While I did struggle with my focus levels this week, I did enjoy what I was doing. I felt super productive and like a real journalist which was really cool. I also got to conduct a pretty lengthy interview on Tuesday, and I really enjoyed my time with them. They were super friendly people and I had such great conversations with them. Honestly, everything this week occurred as I expected it to. I knew from past experiences that I get easily distracted when writing, but I also knew how much I enjoyed writing and creating slideshows. With a minor in English at SLU next year, I’m definitely going to be doing a lot of writing, so it's good to learn how to manage my focus levels before I start that. Also learning how to get work done while balancing other mandatory things is going to be very important in college and I tapped into that this week. My interview this week really helped me to achieve my project goal of getting to know the people of Falmouth. The interview was with people that had worked in Falmouth since 1958 and lived there since 1980 so they’ve seen a lot there. They had a lot of valuable information and life stories for me which I really appreciated. (i couldn't get this to paste double space but it was a page on docs)
Today was another chill work day. No more interviews, although I'm still waiting for Katherine to get back to me. If she does, I'll do the write up and add her to the slides on Monday but if not I have plenty of content already. I worked at home all day today and basically did the same thing I've been doing the past few days. My focus levels were completely out the window so I had to keep taking 20 min breaks but I did end up working for a while and getting a lot done. I got my writeups and my slides as closed to finish as possible so I wouldn't have a lot to do on those on Monday and I could focus on my essay. Today I also completed my outline brainstorm thing for my essay so it's easier for me to write.
Todays hours: 5
Total hours: 73
I started in the morning by listening to all my interviews which took surprisingly long. When I was done listening, I added to my notes for each interview. I spent a while on that as well before I took a break for an appt. After, I added to my final slides for the rest of the day. Overall it was a pretty chill day but I had some long periods of work and got a lot done and that felt good.
Todays hours: 7
Total hours: 68
With a bit of a late start to my day, I begun my morning with my essay. Today was the first day I've worked on it and I'm going to try to stay ahead on it. I spent a good chunk of time working on the essay, mostly on organization for it but some writing too. After that, I devoted the rest of the day to my final slides. I added in a lot of images and some intro slides. The addition of both those things really improved my slideshow. I also added in some text from my doc of all my interviews. Towards the end, my slideshow was really beginning to come together, but there's still more I need to add it it. I also still need to interview Katherine, but I'm planning to do that over the phone tomorrow.
Todays hours: 7
Total hours: 61
I spent my worktime this morning continuing writeups of last week's interviews. I did that for a few hours before heading to Boston for an appt. When I got home around 4, I worked on writing for yesterday's interview. I also spent a lot of time on my final slideshow today and I'm pretty content with how it looks now. I'm still waiting for my interview with the Fal high student but that should be sometime soon.
Todays hours: 6
Total hours: 54
