Finishing my research paper has honestly been one of the best feelings this quarter. The amount of time I put into it overall was the most by far I have done this year. The whole process of formulating an argument, researching it, surveying, analyzing the data, and then filling a niche took up a lot of time. But it was satisfying when I finished and I learned a lot from the whole experience.
This whole process taught me how to read academic articles and analyse their ideas and create my own ideas based off of the articles. This skill that I have learned through this process will definitely pay off in the future. I am sure that I will be using all of these skills that I have obtained here at Santa Clara again.
Overall I found the process quite interesting. It was actually kinda enjoyable to research a topic so much and think about it so much where I am incredibly comfortable making an argument about the topic. I have never really researched and worked with a topic so much where I was like that. I enjoyed it. But at the same time it was a lot of work and a lot of time was spent in the library. Hopefully it will pay off with a good grade. But only time will tell.
The amount of time where I was focused on my topic was not like anything I have had in school. I am used to researching a topic and then being done with it within a week. But having to return to the same topic at hand for multiple times really makes you go to a deeper level of research. This deeper level of research is how I formulated my own argument on the subject.