In The Throes

Academically (and probably emotionally) speaking, this project is going to push me past limits I've yet to recognize. It's already blowing my mind, and I've barely just begun.

For months, I have been collecting references, combing academic articles, reading books, reaching out, feeling around inside the recesses of my not-naturally-science-smart brain (the curiosity and big concepts, I've got; statistics, though, might be the death of me). I've built and restructured my research question a hundred times. What question do I truly want to ask? How do I ask it? Most importantly, how do I TEST it? It sounds so simple when distilled into one sentence. But it will be what consumes me from now until next spring, when I graduate with my Master of Science degree from Bergin University.

It's funny. I've earned Associate of Science and a Bachelor of Science degrees, but have never considered myself a "real scientist". I am a thinker, an inquisitor, and a seeker of knowledge. I am someone who strives to understand the counterpart to my more creative and metaphysical nature. But honestly, due to the very unique academic path I've both constructed and traveled, what I call "hard core science" has eluded me thus far. Or I've avoided it. One way or another, all things being relative, this project, for me, will be no less hard core than a study on something "unquantifiable" would be to a Quantum physicist.

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