Woohoo blog yay!

Okay, so I am terribly hopeless with blogs and I am constantly creating and then after a few months bailing on them, but hopefully that won't happen with this one!

I'm mainly using this to document my time whilst doing my dissertation, I think it'll be useful for me to vent out my thoughts on my ideas without driving the people around me mad! (I talk A LOT and can sometimes be a bit overwhelming).

So I'm only just in my second year of my BSc Psychology course at Teesside University but already we are starting planning for our dissertations, and it's next week in which we pick our supervisors! Pretty scary, especially since I have dabbled with ten thousand different ideas in about a month (and I'm not exaggerating...okay well maybe a little) and struggled to settle and feel comfortable with one idea. So I've been pretty stressed out, my ideas have been great, but the thing I've struggled with the most is simply justifying reasons for WHY I want to carry out such research, and because I haven't been able to do this, all of my ideas were put in the bin and I began to freak the hell out. Again.

Tonight was the most stressful, forgetting my dissertation for a second, I'm also studying a module this year called Applied Experimental Psychology, it's basically a whole module focused on research. Our assignment for the year is to come up with a research idea, and write a report on it, the only thing we don't do is actually DO the research. Anyway, I found out today that we really need to have some work to show our lecturer by Friday so that he can give us feedback. Not good news to find out when you have no work at all, so panic mode set in and I pretty much resigned myself to that fact that I am failing this module and there is nothing I can do about it. (I get this thought a lot, it nearly always passes).

I spoke to a friend, he sent me some research papers and within minutes I had my whole research idea and thus also my dissertation idea too. The joy with Applied Experimental is that we can use the research we do in that module for our dissertation, BONUS. So yeah, it literally took me five minutes to get the idea, and then only another twenty or so to write a brief introduction, method and some rough questions for my questionnaire. I guess I just work well under pressure, good job really as I have a habit of being totally useless  cognitively until right close to deadlines.

I'd go into more about what my idea is, but I think I'll leave this for now because it's already super long and it's getting late and I should really sleep.

Bye for now!