With regard to metacognition, going into it, I was always somewhat aware that I, as a person, need someone to talk to. Not necessarily just in terms of conversation, but in order for me to produce any piece of work. So for example, essays or poems or stuff like that; I’m heavily reliant on being able to talk at someone and be able to bounce ideas off of them or teach them and in turn, find a better way to explain it to myself. Conversely, I might use them as a source of inspiration and be able to find ways for me to connect with what they’re saying and create something of my own based on it. When my project moved to podcasting, I was initially excited because I was like, “Oh wow, I get to talk about all these things,” but I also struggled a lot. Something about talking by myself, over and over again, filled me with both a sense of just tiredness as well as exhaustion of something that I was super excited to talk about. I couldn’t quite pin it down. With my initial podcast I did have a guest appearance, so to speak, and that kind of helped, because I was talking with someone. And then I went to consult the Learning Center and they’re like, “Okay, maybe you need to go and  get a cohost of some sort.” So for my second podcast I went and I asked a friend to talk with me about it. That really helped; I had a lot more fun this time around, especially since the topic was a lot lighter and easier to work on. And then for a different topic, where I switched formats to presentations, I asked my parents for help. Even though they weren’t featured prominently, that was also quite fun, because it wasn’t just me working by myself. It was me collaborating with others, which I think really changed the quality. With regard to what I have learned so far,  I learned that like approximate is better than accurate. I know that I’m a perfectionist and I  struggle with this need to be better than perfect, need to be A++++++++ ad infinitum, but I then realized that approximate is better than accurate.  For my orthography presentation, I genuinely just couldn’t understand and hold everything in my head.  I realized through explaining it to other people, as opposed to how I presented it in my presentation, that it was a lot easier to explain when I wasn’t as concerned with exactly the right date or the exact sequence of events, all worded  formally and professionally.  I was a lot more casual—it was easier to explain because I wasn’t so concerned with the facts, as “Did they get the general gist of it?”. When it came to my presentation, I was hyper conscious of my voice and any mistakes I made; I actually had to go back and correct myself, and I felt like the pressure suddenly mounted. So with regard to my habits, and also the fact that I didn’t really understand and was struggling to explain something in a way that didn’t allow me to make any mistakes, I’ve learned  that approximate is better than accurate. It’s better to have a general idea of something than to try and  get the exact minutiae correct because you might actually end up losing your audience. Honestly, it’s fine. It’s fine, it’s fine, it’s fine. You can just explain a little bit and it’ll be okay,  it’s not a big deal.