Saturday, October 27, 2007

Work This Week (Part II)

This was the work I wanted to do last week, but the writing took sooo long. This is the part where I get to keep it real. I ordered five articles through ILLIAD last week and got them within like 5 business days. They're all on gang characteristics, formation, and prison experience. I'm excited! So, this week is all about reading and working out exactly how to read the research through my theory of institutions. Some dimensions are not immediately obvious, but there are a lot of neat, important insights that my theory seems to account for well. I think I'll be able to start writing by the end of the week.

If you go back to my timeline, I'm about 2 weeks behind. It's a good thing I planned to take a week off. I still should take time off, but the timeline has to be compressed a bit. On the bright side, I'll be spending part of this week going over what I've written so far and streamlining it for the philosophy version of my thesis. That should help me see where I need to streamline this version as well.

The work load is really starting to bear down, especially as I'm trying to start working on a complete IDS portfolio and graduate school applications. But, this is the end of the Senior semester and I guess I can't expect anything less. In fact, I think I'll start on that portfolio thing now. Peace.

2 comments:

amandamarie said...

Hey- let me know if you need sources from prison. I have multitudes of prisoner accounts/ writing from prison/ poetry from behind bars... etc.
Amanda

Dr. B said...

Jason,

Yes, get the portfolio done, and I have responded to the draft you sent on 10/27.

Keep up the good work.