First don’t worry, this isn’t going to be bad news! I just have a lot on my plate so I wasn’t able to keep up with my blogging schedule like I wanted to… So as most of you know I have been working on revising a research paper I helped write (with two classmates) back in May for my Big Graduation Research Capstone.
A Research Capstone is just a fancy Graduate School final exam, minus the exam. A Capstone project is supposed to incorporate elements and themes from each discipline within my program of study. I was in the College of Global and Community Health, specifically the Global Health MS program so a lot of my coursework centered around, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Methods, etc. I literally had to take everything that I had learned in class and apply it to a research project. I worked on the project with two classmates under the supervision of one of our professors. After some planning, we ended up doing a secondary analysis of adolescent risk behaviors. I’m being really vague about this, because I’m not 100% sure how much of the project I can share, but I’ll get into that in a bit.
So after formulating a research question and running the statistics, we wrote everything up in a report. The report was submitted to the Department advisers and chairs for review and we received a grade (Pass/Fail). However, in addition to just submitting the paper to the Department, we were also given the option of submitting the paper for publication in a research journal (hence the vagueness). After submitting to research journals, the paper has to go through a review process, where various experts in the field assess whether the paper is publishable. Well, our paper was in review from May until about two weeks ago… and I have been working on revisions ever since… You may be wondering why I’m working on the revisions alone… well let’s just say I won/lost a game of Not It…
So why am I telling you all this? Well, because I have been so busy working on the revisions for the research paper, that I have not had the time to blog like I wanted to this week. On top of that I started playing Mystic Messenger and that has completely thrown my sleep cycle out of wack. Oh yeah, and my birthday is on Saturday…so I’m going to be super busy for a bit.
Unfortunately, this week’s Fangirl Moment post is cancelled. I could have tried to write something at the last minute, but it would have been rushed and I couldn’t in good conscience do that to you guys. I should be back on track for next Friday. As of right now the Last Week Today post isn’t going to be cancelled, but it might be a little late. My final revisions are due at the end of the day today (Friday) so I should have a bit of time to write the LWT post by Sunday.
I apologize for the hiccup with the schedule this week… I just couldn’t get the post done in time… ah, well…