Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Some things have come to mind

I have given my grad project alot of spontaneous thought that only lasted for 10 minutes at the most and i have come up with a very broad topic that i think would be great to address. Luckily the topic is health & medicine and there are numerous issues pertaining to that topic that i can pin-point however, i have a hard time making decisions but i look forward to sitting down for an extended amount of time to really make that tough decision.
Since my entry into city high i was dreading the thought of a gradution project, and with that i have over heard that people have actually failed their grad projects and were obligated to return the next fall to redue them. This year out of all the rest, is when the most talk about grad projects is expected but it has mostly been positive seeing how most people are excited about their topics.
Being the younger sister of two brothers, i knew pretty early what i was going to have to do to graduate, and i watched my brother actually build a computer for his own grad project so i was quite ahead of the ball really early on. Nonetheless, this year i actually recieved some very helpful information and advice from friend that will be graduating this year. Though recieving alot of advice from my friend i really was kinda ackwardly thankful for her mistakes, because she warned me about how things could go if you dont follow through with intended plans.
She told me about her previous topics, how it was hard to finally arrive at a topic she enjoyed, and that it was important to make sure you are organized and actually take the project very seriously. Mainly because she knows of a few people who coast themselves through their grad projects and are facing extreme loads of rigorous work that needs to be completed in a short amount of time, and some that will possibly fail.
Like i stated before my main interest are in medicine and health care so i am hoping to find an important structured topic that will make a great grad project.

My grad project could possibly be based on:
  • An incurable disease
  • Health care/insurance issues in america
  • Women that are signifacantly involved in medicine
  • Educational facilities that prepare students for work in the medical profession
  • Advancement in medical technology

Though i think these topics are great ideas i am worried about the action part of the project and i am not so sure about how i will plan the action portion to where i am actively involved. I am also concerned about my capability of creating and structuring a project on my own, i am very use to being given a rubric and a packet of requirements that guidelines to a reasonable completion so im not to confident on my own.

2 comments:

  1. Hey Kourt thank you and I love your ideas because i want to be in the medical field to. But i dont know if i want to do my project on sexuality or childrenwho have been sexually assulted??

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  2. Thank you and thats what I was planning on doing was to interview people.

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