April+6+Chatchada's+Reflection

=April 6, 2010 = =Reflection by Chatchada Akarasriworn = After listening Nicholas Eastham’s presentation last night, I think I need to be aware of the difficulty in choosing the right dissertation topic since he mentioned that he needed to change his several topics before getting this one. He gave us very useful information which we will be able to use in our dissertation process the near future. I think having guest speakers come to this class is very helpful and beneficial for students to be familiar with the process of dissertation.

For the group project, since I just came back from the conference in San Diego and I did not have a chance to listen to other groups’ presentation completely except mine, at the first time when I heard from my group telling that we needed to combine everyone’ group idea together when I got back. Honestly, I could not imagine or see the big picture of what we were supposed to do for the following week.

However, I have to thank to **Shari** since she just knew my confusion and be able to point me out to the right direction. Actually, we just needed to look at everyone’ s theme or metaphor whether it could be compiled to our group project or not, it did not mean that we needed to copy everything from others. Only we grab the important part that we think it should be included in our project, that’s it! Thanks a lot Shari!! Now it makes sense to me.

I am so glad that everyone can work on the big project together even though the issue of logistic might be a problem somehow but this thing can be worked out. However, I really feel confident that we will get this project done before the final week definitely because we have a great idea of how to make the alignment in objective easy to understand for TAs from Manal, Suzan, and Tekleab’s group, a great team leader, “Shari,” and a great team effort from Watsatree, Miriam, and me. Nevertheless, the great critiques from Dr. Lohr and Kim will also help us to construct the idea how to make this class project to become an exceptional job for ET702 in Spring 2010.

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