What to Survey

So for the past two weeks in my english class we have been working on these archival research papers that we just turned in the other day. Hopefully I did well on the paper I put in a lot of work on it and since it was our first paper we turned in it extra important because it will be the first grade that is put in the gradebook. With us finishing this paper it brings us to our next assignment which is a survey report which sounds interesting to me just because of how much more information I can learn from the survey and how I will be able to go more indepth about by archival research topic. Most of the time when I have heard the words survey I use to think about how much of a waste of time they are and how they really don’t accomplish anything. But as I thought of it I really have never tried to see it from the point of view of the person giving the survey, how much work and time they put into it. If you think about it surveys really do accomplice a lot like being able to reach a large number of people, they don’t take long to send out or complete and it’s much cheaper to do. So now with all that said I have to find out what topic I want to do my survey paper and the survey on. I feel like the toughest part of this paper won’t be the writing part it will be me actually picking a topic that I can write about with passion and energy in every sentence. I don’t have a whole lot of topics in mind but I think have one that I could write about that is also relatable to me and other students. The question would be how has the transition from high school to college been, has the academics been what you thought they were going to be, do you feel any pressure from family or friends to perform in school. I understand that this may not be the best question to ask but hey you have to start somewhere because no one has all the answers when they first began a project.