The end of this semester is just jam-packed with a lot of stuff. I finally, finally, finished a paper to take to a conference and am just crossing my fingers that it gets accepted (eek!). My friends and family just don't get what I have spent the last month of my life working on non-stop and to be honest it's just really hard to explain.
When it is all said and done, I have a 14 page paper, including references, to show for my mountain of research. And, when talking to other, non-graduate students about this paper, I don't think they realize that it's not just a 12 page research paper that I b.s.'d my way through. This is 12 pages of my sweat and tears, literally. This paper is my quality research, a study that I performed, and just because it wasn't performed in a lab, doesn't mean it's not important, or credible.
The research I performed, was in the form of interviews, of a specific population to realize their perceptions and how that can be utilized. The paper then utilized previous research, methodology, results, and conclusions and implications to produce the final result. All in all this paper has consumed my life but I know it will be worth it. Hopefully, this paper will be accepted into conference and then hopefully, (fingers crossed), published in a journal. Then, maybe my friends and family will realize the dedication I made to this project.
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