Project 2 Reflection: Frustrating

Overall, I do not believe I did too well on this project. Unlike the first project, I did not feel as confident in my work as I did when I turned it in in project one. Probably the reason for this is due to the fact that I have never really done any assignment that is like project two. In high school I was always assigned large essays with that involved an argument and then proving the argument, but unfortunately, I believe I was ill prepared or practiced in evaluations. But I do believe that I did Farley well in choosing a good topic for the project that many college students can relate to. In my opinion, I feel as if though I did a good job in creating criteria in which to relate to my topic of dorm life. The big problem was that I really struggled with finding outstanding evidence that could really back up my argument and evaluations. This could be due to the fact that maybe my topic was overall too broad and general thus if I had a more specific area of focus I may have found some good evidence  or maybe in general, my research skills are in need of great improvement. Moreover, I struggled a bit in the technological aspect of the project. For example, it took over an hour to figure out how to create a map and paste it into my blogger and then try to link my annotations to each area marked on the map. Ultimately, this is my fault though because if I had remembered to attend workshop that week I would have probably had no problem understanding how to use Blogger and Google maps efficiently. Furthermore, I feel as if I went somewhat off topic with some of my annotations. Due to the fact that there was a set amount of words needed I felt that it was somewhat hard meeting that word count amount with relevant information and evaluation. Ultimately, this is most likely my own fault for not maybe thinking deeper or broadening my imaginary scope of ideas. Additionally, I can improve my skills by probably doing more research related assignments and doing more assignments that involve evaluations. Furthermore, this assignment can be definitely be used outside the university. Evaluating areas, people, or products happen every day and not necessarily are all written down such as this project. Outside the campus I could use these skills to evaluate a game or food in order to tell other how good or bad it is. This skill is thusly very useful for functioning in every day society. By having this skill one will understand or know what products to have and how to ultimately compare that product to their ones.