Brutally Honest Self-Assessment

This blog will outline my feelings toward and about my first submitted project.

Q: How are you feeling about the project you just submitted for assessment? Give me your raw, unvarnished opinion of your own project overall. 
A: I honestly feel like I greatly improved my project from the draft to the final product. The peer review was really helpful and gave really good tips on how to enhance my project. I feel pretty decently about my final product. At this point, I am not sure how to feel about the grading system. I think I executed everything that was asked of us, but my professor may not think the same.

Q: What are the major weaknesses of the project you submitted? Explain carefully how and why you consider these elements to be weak or under-developed.
A: A weak point in my project would be second guessing myself. When I do this I tend to babble and try to overly fulfill the requirements just in case I mess up on one aspect, I can get points for other aspects.

Q: What are the major strengths of the project you submitted? Explain carefully how and why you consider these elements to be strong or well-developed.
A:  A major strength of my project is my use of stakeholders. I was really interested in this topic and chose to do a lot of research into my stakeholders. The most cliche approach to refute de-extinction would be to talk about religious views regarding it (which one of my reviewers mentioned). Instead of taking that easy way out, I delved into the scientific rebuttals. Someone in the same profession as the scientists experimenting that has different opinions on the subject in my opinion was more interesting than the usual "religion doesn't like it because morals and ethics etc".

Q: What do you think of how you practiced time management for Project 1? Did you put enough time and effort into the project? Did you procrastinate and wait till the last minute to work on things? Share any major time management triumphs or fails....
A: To be brutally honest, I did not spend all of my time on this project. With 3 professors all telling me I need to spend 20 hours a week on their subject, one or two are bound to suffer from lack of time. It is not physically possible for me to spend 70 hours (10 for another class) a week on homework plus 19 hours of class, working, working out, and sleeping. If I tried to do this I would burn out so quick  that I would destroy my drive for projects later in the semester. With that being said, I spent as much time as I could on this project without interfering with other classes. Yes, I do most of my work for this class on the weekends, but that is when I have time to focus.

Chen, Duncan."Rocky Balboa"02/12/2016 via flickr. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic