Riley+reflection+3

=//__Riley reflection 3 - Due Feb. 12th, 2009 __//= 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?
 * < Moving along fine right now. ||


 * I'm going down to Jackson Sunday to work on a fly rod. If I could redo the last month I would have worked on the rodss more. ||

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?


 * Most of my decisions have been good so far. However, last week I forgot to call my mentor to to confirm our meeting to get started, so we drove to Jackson and he wasn't there. ||

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


 * I have learned through this process that there is a lot more involved in building a fly rod than I had origonally throught. ||

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?


 * I learned there's a lot more to building fly rods than just wrapping thread around a pole. There's a certain amount of thread you should use for different weight rods. Also, I learned that you have to know where to put the guides and where the spine of the rod is. ||

6. How have you used your advisor or mentors feedback? How have you implemented their suggestions into your project? I haven't really started on my rods yet, but but I have thought about the things my mentor has has told me about building fly rods and spincast rods so I'll be more prepared to get started.