Riley+reflection+4

=//__Riley reflection 4 - Due March 29, 2010 __//= Riley's home page

1. How are things going with your Senior Project?
 * Falling behind schedule
 * Having some trouble with certain pieces
 * Making Great Progress
 * Moving Along Fine
 * Stuck and need help

2. How and when are you working effectively on this project? If you had the last month to do over again, what would you do differently? Why?
 * < I'm moving along fine right now. ||


 * I try and go over to Jackson and work on it every weekend. If I had the last month to do over again I would have bought some materials and done my work on it over here. ||

3. What kinds of decisions have you found yourself making recently? Have they been good decisions? What are you learning about how you make decisions and what kind of effect these decisions have on your learning?


 * My mentor has been working on other things for a while so we could'nt go to Jackson and work on it for a while, so I probably should have bought some materials and worked on it myself or with Highstreet. ||

4. What did you learn about yourself—your working style, your interests, etc?


 * For my second rod I made my own reel seat. I learned that I am intererseted in making these and possibly even selling them in the future. ||

5. What did you learn about your topic/subjects that you didn’t know before? What connections among the various things you have studied and researched do you see? Have you had any “aha” moments? What were they and how did they affect you?


 * No "aha" moments. I learned that making a reel seat out of antler it's either going to look really good or really bad, depending on how much you have to take off. Also, the antler will dry out over time so you need to dip it in olive oil to keep it moist. ||

6. How have you used your advisor or mentors feedback? How have you implemented their suggestions into your project? For this next rod we were going to try to figure out how to build something into the handle. Then he suggested that I try to build a reel seat out of antler. Neither of us knew how we were going to build the handle so I decided to go ahead and make a reel seat.