Research Never Ends

Hi all! I hope everyone is having a pleasant Wednesday! May it also be noted that exactly two weeks from today, interim will be over and at this exact moment I may be presenting my research findings to the Independent Research interim group and anyone else who decides to listen in on the presentations. This is both terrifying and exciting, because I cannot believe that interim is already half-way over and that I only have 2 weeks to pull together a paper and a powerpoint presentation for my peers. As always, things will work out but this realization that I really only have two weeks left made everything feel like it was happening so quickly! However, although I realized I only have two weeks left, I spoke to Dr. Bopp today about doing even more research. As stated in the title of this blog, the research never ends! For this entire month, I have only been gathering young adults for the cognition study I am working on; however, the entire study includes a group of older adults as well. Thus, Dr. Bopp and I discussed running tests and gathering the data for the older adult age group this spring and in the early part of the summer, so that we can completely finish up this research project. This is very exciting and I'm really excited that I will be able to continue with the project because I am already so invested in the study that I can't stop now! I will also likely be spending a fair portion of my summer writing up the article for the current study (and possibly another study) as we work toward publication of the experiment. I honestly never though I would like (or rather love) research this much, but I do and I can't wait to continue what I am doing right now. So this has been the highlight of my Wednesday, in addition to running tests on my lovely subjects (you know who you are, and thank you!) and doing data analysis as always. I hope your day has been equally exciting...

Reagan