Self- Reflection Essay
Mahir Shahriar
Writing For Engineering 21007
Prof. Sara Jacobson
This assignment was the first big assignment we had in this class. We had to find a lab report on a topic that related to our major and our interests and write an analysis on it based on how it fits the standard format for a lab report. There were some ups and downs, but I think I did alright on this assignment, with definite room for improvement.
One of my biggest mistakes was during the planning stage. When looking for a lab report I liked, I spent a lot of time reading lab reports and casting them aside as soon as I found a new one. When I got to the lab report that I used during my assignment, I was beyond tired of sifting through reports and had just picked that one knowing the general idea of what it was talking about and that I liked both AI and emotional psychology. It was only after I began working on the assignment, that I realized that the lab report wasn’t a normal lab report. It was a compilation of a bunch of them spanning 10 years. This made it so that the format of the lab report didn’t follow the standard format of a lab report as shown in the textbook, which just made it harder for me. Another problem I faced was time management. My schedule was packed with tests and projects, along with me getting very sick and bedridden unexpectedly, made it so when it came time to work on the final draft, I didn’t have much time and that time that I did have was being juggled with a lot of other things.
While I did struggle through this assignment, the actual lab report gave me a large insight into the field that I wanted to go into. I was always into both psychology and computer science, and I wanted to one day in the future, contribute to some form of application of AI to help people with mental health issues and mental health research. This lab report gives an extensive overview of the previous research done in that field, which was very interesting for me to read and learn.
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