Haven't had a chance to blog about my irp report:)
Think it's been the focus of my entries for the past 2 weeks or so as the report is being written up.
It's been a love-hate relationship with it. At first I loved it. I enjoyed during up the test, enjoyed booking labs and liasing with people (though it's a little troublesome..), enjoyed learning new things, enjoyed meeting the participants and testing them, enjoyed the little hectic times of going for experiment in the morning and classes in the afternoon.
And then the writing of the report starts. There was frustration (in trying to remember how to write the report), denial (that there's a report to be written), irritation (when you try to write the report but nothing comes out), gratefulness (when dr tan gives direction, when other people encourage you), helplessness (when you wonder what to do with your data and what tests to use), strong disdain (when your report drags for a long time and you start to wonder why you're spending so much time doing it instead of studying for your exams.. the report is 70% of the module, microbes exam was also 70% of the module.. lol) and loneliness (when everyone else is studying for their exams and you're STILL doing your report.. ).
i thought i would be relieved when it's over, or happy, or glad, or sad. some explosive emotion which will manifest itself in exaggerated speech and action. but at the end of it all, it just came with a silent acknowledgement. 'oh, it's over. i've finished it'.
and at that moment, i wish that i can do my own experiment again, go through the whole experience again.. incorporating the many things which i've learned along the way.
hope that i can have the chance to do it again in year 4. i'm going to do literature review and formulate the topic through the sem next year (for interest's sake) and hopefully i can go on to do ism under dr tan again in year 4. yup:)