On Monday I had my first of three FYP workshops. There has been talk of the FYP since I started going to UL and in all honesty I hadn’t put any real thought into it until this semester. This resulted in a mini panic at the beginning of the semester asking myself “what am I even interested in?”. The answer to that question was a lot of things, too many things maybe. All seemingly irrelevant also.
Fast forward to week 7 and here I am with my life moderately in order. I have decided to do my FYP on Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange and how it has influenced popular culture. I don’t have a definite research question yet but I am happy with where everything is going. I also have a supervisor who is excited about the idea.
The workshops are there to help us focus ourselves and to define our ideas. We were given a task in class to write about why we had chosen this topic and what was its purpose. This helped me to define in my own mind what exactly it was that I wanted to achieve.
I think the workshops will be really useful as up until now the information we have received has been very general. Now I feel it is more focused and I think that will be more beneficial.
It was interesting to see what topics others had decided on in class and I’ve been enjoying hearing what ideas my own friends have. It’s been a good opportunity to learn about new things.
Now I’m actually looking forward to starting work on my topic but get back to me again in fourth year on that.
Reflections 