What. A. Semester. This semester has been the definition of a rollercoaster and so has this assignment.
The first struggle I came across was refining my topic. I knew I wanted to further research into Uni students and the friendships they have made but I was so interested in every aspect of it that I just didn’t know how to refine it. Then that is where I thought to write about how the different types of relationships formed at Uni are conducive to a positive student experience. I wanted to know the good that came out of meeting people at Uni.
I conducted and tweeted my survey around 3 times and replied to countless people who all said they did my survey. I got 30 respondents and I am more than positive I did well above more than 30 surveys but that is okay, we let that go.
I knew I needed more information from my primary research, so I made a second survey and sent it to people based off of what they answered in my first survey. I wanted people who were going to give me detail and were open enough to tell me more about their student experience. After the 8 individuals completed this, I had all the information I needed. Then I came across my next struggle, what the hell do I write about now?
I didn’t have enough information off of the different relationships that could form through Uni to write a piece about it, so this is when I came up with the idea to write about the benefits of making friends at Uni. And I finally had a question to answer, pat on the back for me.
If I could change anything about my process it would be to not do a survey. I think interviewing people would have helped me so much more, just getting straight to the detail instead of trying to get 100+ students to answer a survey where I don’t even know 98% of them.
I am, however, happy with the results and the final (finally*) question that I answered and the researching findings that came along with it. I actually really enjoyed reading up about friendships and seeing how everyone else in my degree are meeting people and what they think of the friendships they have formed. It has given me a sigh of relief as I have most definitely lacked in that area, but hey, I’m growing and learning.
Stay True, R.
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