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The Research process is going pretty well, but I have definitely fallen into some hard spots. I’ve had some trouble dividing my product into three sections and what to put into those sections. I wanted to divide it into mental health, perception and  media. When I presented it to Mr. Geerlings I didn’t have a lot of information to support these topics so he thought I would present them to weak, and I totally agree it was also very difficult to find information on all these topics. The whole project so far I have stayed pretty organized and tried to balance all my time according to all my classes but it has been pretty stressful and I have to admit I got a lot behind. 

I just started a new job and this past week was my first nights in my own working at the cash register with actual people and prior to that my work made me to tests to make sure I was prepared and that required a lot of studying. For Science I have either an hour worth of homework, and review due the next day or a project or lab that seems to be worth a huge chunk of my grade. All in all science has been the made source of my stress the past couple weeks and my grade right now in that class is not anywhere near where I would like it to be and I know I am capable of higher. Math is a whole other story, I am doing horrible but I have brought up my grade significantly and my Teacher agrees and thinks I will be able to get a better grade by the end of the exam as long as I put in the time and it feels like I have none on top of this blog, the product and my other class, Food and Nutrition. A long with feeling like I have no time left I am posting this blog a day late which I know will affect my grade on this and also adds to my stress level. 

Being organized is key at this time and I know I have to shut off my social life for the next two weeks in order to feel accomplished and proud of my final projects for my classes and the exams coming very soon. My second period teacher said “turn off your social life for the next three months so you can still have one the two months after school ends.” And that just hit so hard and I thought that was the best advice I have heard in the last month on how to deal with all the projects coming at me all at once. At this point I know the only way I will be able to do it all is if I balance it all and make a write in my journal what days I am to complete what assignments. But all in all I have stayed pretty on top of things but the stress breaks me down and I cannot do anything at moments so I have to always check in with myself and make sure I am all there and feel okay and accomplished. 

For the research part I know I have done a good job getting my information because I set aside time before bed to watch videos educating myself and I use my class time affectively to gather all my information from websites. This topic has just been so interesting and I haven’t found myself bored. I feel like if you were doing a topic that didn’t speak to you or you were not interested in you would just fail this project entirely. Like my friends are all doing such different topics and I am so uninterested in and if I had to do them I just know I couldn’t do it as well as they are. All in all I think this is an amazing project that everyone gets to be happy with and nobody should be able to complain about. The blog part is not as bad as I thought it would be at first the though of five entries with pictures and a maximum amount of words was gonna be to way to much work, surprisingly came so naturally and wasn’t a problem for me at all.