Now officially a grad
Ok, well it's sort of pending the receipt of actual grades in a few weeks, followed by an actual degree certificate in a few months, but at this point I'm done. The Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology is complete. Houston, the Eagle has landed.
With as many years as this took, it sure felt like an undertaking of moon-landing proportions. And I don't actually feel done. Like with my final paper -- it wasn't done, I just turned it in. It was as done as it was going to get by deadline, and I think it was adequate, but I wasn't totally happy with it. I'm actually planning to revise it and send it on to one of the researchers I quoted, since my findings support some of his. :-)
And that's kind of my feeling about my entire school-life at the UW thus-far. I could have done better. I'm disappointed that I didn't. I'd like to do better in the future. I hope I'll get that chance. I'm not entirely sure my work, or my ability to do good work, is good enough. But if I don't try, I'll regret it.
Oh, the paper? Was a write-up of my social network study: Social Networks and Health in World of Warcraft. I had no idea when I started this that there was as much research out there as there is. Check out Nick Yee's site if you're interested in what research has been done around online gaming: http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/
Did you know that the average female gamer is more inclined to be physically fit and have a good BMI than the average American woman? (If you're skeptical, that's good. Because self-reported data is notoriously unreliable.)
Next on my list? Three short words. Gee Arr Eee.
With as many years as this took, it sure felt like an undertaking of moon-landing proportions. And I don't actually feel done. Like with my final paper -- it wasn't done, I just turned it in. It was as done as it was going to get by deadline, and I think it was adequate, but I wasn't totally happy with it. I'm actually planning to revise it and send it on to one of the researchers I quoted, since my findings support some of his. :-)
And that's kind of my feeling about my entire school-life at the UW thus-far. I could have done better. I'm disappointed that I didn't. I'd like to do better in the future. I hope I'll get that chance. I'm not entirely sure my work, or my ability to do good work, is good enough. But if I don't try, I'll regret it.
Oh, the paper? Was a write-up of my social network study: Social Networks and Health in World of Warcraft. I had no idea when I started this that there was as much research out there as there is. Check out Nick Yee's site if you're interested in what research has been done around online gaming: http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/
Did you know that the average female gamer is more inclined to be physically fit and have a good BMI than the average American woman? (If you're skeptical, that's good. Because self-reported data is notoriously unreliable.)
Next on my list? Three short words. Gee Arr Eee.