Successes

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I knew from the first day of class I wanted to research political polarization. From there, my specific topic fell into place.

I was lucky to have an invaluable connection with my mentor, and communicating with him was very easy.

Once I knew the content of what I needed to write, putting it into the language of the paper itself came, by and large, very easy to me.

Without a doubt, this was my biggest struggle. Balancing timeliness of my research work and my other classes was a challenge all year.

I set an aggressive target for respondent count (nearly 1,000 altogether), and I lost a lot of time trying to reach that count.

Making sense of my data required a lot of manual spreadsheet work — and I faced several time-consuming setbacks.