Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Research Entry #6 (11-12-13)

Friday November 8th I spent about an hour looking over corrections on my literature review and other works.  I then spent another hour scanning over sample works on Chapter 4 and planning my attack.  Sunday November 10th I looked over samples again for a while and then spent literally the entire rest of my day planning for my return to school.  I wanted to make sure my lessons for this week are extra special since I know I'm being observed this week.  Monday November 11th I had my first Blackboard Collaborate session with Amy.  It took me 4 tries to get in.  Luckily I was attempting to login about 20 minutes before my session just to be safe.

I'm enjoying the way that our research paper is broken into parts.  It's definitely a huge help to procrastinators.  Most times I don't mean to procrastinate, I just get caught up doing other things and I put off my grad work and end up shooting myself in the foot.

Speaking of procrastinating, I may need to use my freebie late assignment for the Chapter 4 section of our paper.  It's not that it's difficult or anything, but I didn't realize until this weekend that I have progress testing this week in order to maintain my rank of 5th degree black belt.  I am required to test twice per year in order to maintain my rank and make strides to my next degree.  I planned on writing my paper last night, but I got caught up preparing for part 1 of my progress test.  The test itself was from 8-9:30 and was very exhausting.  I was pretty tired in school today.  Right now I just want to go to sleep.