Kylie+Harrington+Spring+Research+Journal

February 8, 2015
For this week’s task I made a week-by-week schedule of what I want achieve each week for my thesis, though this is subject to change and update. While I’m happy with the direction of my thesis re: topic and interviews, I’m unhappy with the structure of the thesis and feel like I need more data in order to write enough and draw the right conclusions, so the first half of the semester will be focused on conducting interviews and then the second half will be focused on making cohesive arguments with that data. I also made a schedule that will be in a different link in the spring main page that I will be able to follow during my time, and will also make a specific calendar on Google that will be focused on thesis tasks. Last semester I had trouble organizing what I was going to do, as well as keeping myself motivated and on track and progressing forward. Ideally I'll finish the interviews as much as soon as possible which will allow me more time to write and edit, so the two interview a week schedule plan may change if I have time for three interviews or something like that, as well as it will be at mercy of when people are available to interview, so I may have no interviews one week and four or five interviews the next week because that's when people were most available. I also feel like I need to bulk up my literature review though I'm not sure how I want to go about doing that and will be partially focused on that structure and determination for the beginning of the semester.


 * February 15, 2015 **

For this week, we had the first meeting with Brandon (even though it kind of failed), and I made an appointment to meet with a TA for this Thursday to meet with my TA. I also sent a bunch of emails to the Greek leaders that I haven't yet interviewed, and will hopefully schedule those within the next few weeks. Additionally, I reviewed the notes left on my thesis from last semester from Brandon, and sent my thesis to Professor Malazita to review and get a second opinion. I've received a few emails back to schedule my appointment with