CHES

I passed CHES.......I am so excited.

Exciting stuff

Yea so I just realized that I have one more weekend before CHES. However I will be in Columbus twice next week. Thesis still in progress. It is getting there. 26 days till grad! I am all smiles.

Slight changes but great progress

Well the process of my thesis is still in the making. I know things will work out because progress can be seen yepeeeeeee. So I have been working on my portfolio all morning. It actually isn't as easy as I thought it would be. Well really the problem is with me trying to get all my artifacts together. I saved class work in several places on several computers that now I am just running around and looking through different flash drives....I know it will all work out, I just want to make sure that I get through tonight. I really want to mail in everything that needs to be mailed in to the school by this Friday. Oh yea and I will not be going to homecoming, but I will be attending the minority dinner that is being held to honor minority students with a 3.0 and above GPA...exciting stuff. I haven't set foot on W soil since 2008...so I am ready to see the changes, and old friends well mostly new faces but hey.....I will forever be a Dubya Girl!

It'll be May soon.

Yea so today I am working on my Portfolio. I had wanted to make it electronic, but I have changed my mind. Reason being I am just so much more comfortable with just submitting a disc. So I am anxious about a lot of stuff most especially my thesis. It does not seem to be going in the direction that I want it to go. I will constantly maintain a good attitude and keep trusting that all things will work out for my good and a contribution to the general body of knowledge. There is a whole lot less for me to work on now, but it still seems like I am more anxious now than I was a few months ago????????????????? Boggles my mind. Anyway...hope everyone else is doing well and that your thesis projects are getting ready to come to a close.

COMPS is over!

Yes so COMPS is over with...its like a dream come true. I just hope that I did extremely well.

One down!

Ok so like COMPS is due in under 48 hours...how much progress have I made..not much. But I have something amazing to share. I finished the online course for Gender Issues In Health and I plan to mail my certificate off by the end of this week. Thesis...still slow, I am waiting for feedback. Other than that, all is going well and I am just excited about being able to cross something out on my to do list! Well keep working on COMPS people! It will be over soon...

Progress??????????????

So Comps is due this week, portolio, gender issues online course, case study, a few more news letters, MCAT, CHES...and most importantly I am still at a stand still with my thesis...I am not stressed because I just won't let myself get that way. I know that I will meet every single deadline with full force and be totally and completely prepared for each task, especially the exams. So like April is a few days away....that's the month where it all rises up and when May gets here, I will be looking back at success and hard work! Think positive Lumba...hope everyone else is doing the same!

Time Management

Today I received my comps exam...wow! I have been waiting for this moment for so long, I am filled with excitement and a positive attitude. This is just the very beginning of the end of what I need to turn in by May 1, 2010! Of course I am still working on my thesis. These past few weeks have been hectic for me, I was sick for like a whole week laid on the couch, could not show up for work missed my intermediate SPSS class...my daughter got sick and was running a fever for days and the doctor said it was a viral infection that they could do nothing about. She has had 3 X-rays in a span of 5 months, not so fun at all. Well of course all three X-rays were for different reasons, but similar symptoms and the other two times were bacterial so we turned to antibiotics. Anyway..so back to the education stuff in my life. I was feeling down right scared of failing thesis, but hey a little phone call can lift you up when you know just who to call. So I called Dr. P and she just filled me with determination. I didn't even tell her how I was feeling, I just called to get some insight and boy I ended the conversation all smiles with a realization that I have so much help what is there for me to worry about? So to my fellow candidates...we can do this! Yea CHES exams are coming up soon..oh did I mention that I am taking the MCAT a week after that...I bet you are saying to yourself, why is she overloading herself with stuff that can wait. I wonder why too LOL! Well technically I had to, I didn't realize what I was getting myself into, because everything is a priority....nothing can wait at this point. I can tell you one thing though when my research is over and my article is submitted for publishing, I will truly be all smiles. That for me is the most critical thing because it does not just involve my effort, but the effort of others as well. There are 36 more days before all course work is turned in...can you believe it.

Progress

A few changes are in the making as regards my research. It has been brought to my attention that I need to tweek my methods just a little in order for the study that I am conducting to answer my research questions. I adapt to change well and when you are a novice in such areas, it is best to get as much help as possible in order for your work to produce the best results possible. My study is taking the pathway of a cohort design...good stuff huh? I think so.
I have been looking at the difference between physical activity and exercise. Most individuals perform some form of physical activity, but not everybody exercises. Physical activity can be anything, even my moving my fingers as I type this post is physical activity. However that is not so for exercise. Exercise pertains to more structure and intention. I will be focusing on exercise and its effects on appetite and not just physical activity...yea that's another change...but it looks good thus far.
I had tried to create my own appetite instrument...did not work so well. So I will just go with an appetite instrument that has been used in previous literature.
I am going to have two training sessions in SPSS which is data collection, entry and analysis...I believe this will help a whole lot, I need it, I know I do.
Anyway..for now these are the few things that are out there...hopefully next time I will be stating that the plane has taken off and yepeeeeeee research is underway...but hey..its a work in progress and I of course must keep reminding myself that THE END IS NEAR...I should probably shout a little louder....T-H-E E-N-D I-S N-E-A-R!

Research Proposal

Today I turned my research proposal in. It's a relief but it also makes me nervous. The purpose of my research is to understand what kind of effects physical activity has on the appetites of obese, overweight and normal weight individuals. It is exciting and I can't wait for the IRB to approve my research. Now its time for me to look over my IRB and my Informed Consent....the end is almost here!

Deadlines!

All I can think about is deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. The ROL is done phew...just waiting for Dr. Pintado's response. The complete proposal is due this Friday and all I keep looking at is the wording, is the information accurate, can my protocol be followed to the tee and will the same results occur. Well I still have a few more days to get it just right. I currently have a headache, not because of all the school work. I think its because of the weather change. I feel like I am coming down with a cold. Hopefully it will fade away soon. This is not the time to get sick. As I brainstorm all my ideas, I can't help but smile and be thankful that reading text books and retaining information is a very important part of the entire process.

The end is near!

I decided to go to graduate school as a spur of the moment stop while I took my time and prepared myself for medical school. I chose Health Education because I had little knowledge of what it was all about and I desired to learn something new and different. As a wife and mother of two with a full-time job I needed something convenient that would not keep me away from my family in any kind of way. If I say it has been easy, I would be lying, but the hard work has surely paid off thus far. As I embark on getting through thesis and enjoying my research with the hope of getting published...all I can say is "the end is near!"