October 29. 2014

Today was a pretty slow day in the lab, and a slow day at work in general, so I was able to finish two annotated bibliographies. I stumbled across a journal specifically made for Problem-Based Learning and found several relevant articles in there. I'm now have twenty-four articles to pick from, which gives me some wiggle room. I actually barely left the lab today. I had a couple classes in the morning and one in the afternoon but other than that I just worked on school stuff. Which means I don't really have anything to write about. And I'm also not really in the mood to write because I've been reading articles and writing all day.

Tonight was Chipotle night and the girl making my order is mildly determined to remember my order. She got pretty much everything wrong today so there's only room for improvement. My burrito ended up being pretty good but I think I need to go back to asking for only a little sour cream and cheese. Or maybe just one of those instead of both.

After dinner I knocked out another two annotated bibliographies. The first was particularly difficult because I got hung up on one freaking word. I had summarizing or paraphrasing articles because the authors spent so much time writing what they mean and then I'm supposed to come along and say it in a slightly different way but maintain the accuracy of the statement. And sometimes it feels like the author said whatever it was in just such a way that it doesn't make sense any other way. That is when the frustration kicks in. But I powered through and now I am up to ten annotated bibliographies, which means I am ahead of schedule. I could potentially be done tomorrow if I decide to stop at twelve. I have until Sunday so I might try and go all the way to fifteen but we'll see how things go. I still need to read a chapter and article and watch a video lecture so I can write a discussion post for my research class. And make the graphic for the information cycle for my other class. I tried to come up with some ideas for that project today but I'm still at a bit of a loss. I want something interesting but also something I know enough about so I don't have to do too much research because of my time constraints this week. I'll figure something out.