Final Reflection

Some of the things I learned from this class are that time management is everything! You need to give yourself time to do things and nothing is truer than that statement when it comes to this class. I did Science and Technology: Promise or Peril and I learned more about artificial intelligence and Google's self-driving car. It's changed my understanding of college level research because it showed me Google isn't your best source; you can only really find scholarly stuff in the databases. I was so used to using and relying off of Google for things when I was challenged to use the databases and it was tough at first but then I realized it's a lot more reliable then Google. I definitely learned that college level research is not easy if you do not give yourself time to find the best sources to support your claim. Some advice I can offer to a future student is to do every single milestone. These milestones help me realize my flaws and what I need to work on, instead of just doing the paper and not knowing what you need to work on. Professor Dragan makes these five milestones assignments worth points because you cannot just come up with a final paper and have no blueprint. Although it may seem like it's annoying it literally is only helping you achieve the grade you really want in this course. Again I was made aware of my flaws because of these milestones so I worked on them and confidently handed in my final paper. I know now that time is everything in school and especially with this class. You need the right sources to mold your paper into a masterpiece. This paper initially was a lot harder than I expected but once I partnered up with Professor Dragan it was simply easy to find the right sources to do your paper My favorite research method was Gale, I personally found everything I needed on there!. If I could have done anything different I would have gave myself more time. I usually would complete assignments 2 to 3 days before they were due. I guess that's okay but do you want an okay grade? Give yourself the maximum amount of time to get these things done because if you don't or if you don't do any of the milestones or you put no effort into them; you're going to wake up a few days before the final draft is due and you are going to look around and be lost. Key thing to take away here is: GIVE YOURSELF TIME!