One week in, I’m not exactly sure how to feel about my senior project. Due to certain circumstances, and a college visit, I haven’t truly been able to engage in my senior project completely. What I hoped to be a key part of the project, the experience I get from farming, I haven’t been able to engage in as a result of it raining. However, I have still been pleasantly blown away by some of the research I’ve been doing. It’s all extremely fascinating to me, specifically some of the urban design theories I’ve been reading. It’s completely recontextualized my paper, and I’ve also learned a lot about what urban design theorists think makes up the urban design. I now know a lot of what I want to focus my research on, and that’s been very helpful. I also have experimented with a few different ways of researching, finding a podcast that didn’t end up actually being that helpful for my research, so that contrasted what I thought coming into the project. I think the biggest way that this week has impacted me is what I think about planning ahead. Not being able to accomplish everything I wanted to be helped me think about what I needed to do in the future to stay on track, and that felt very valuable. I think otherwise, the project is really lining up to my expectations in all the right ways and I don’t really have much more to say about the project. I’m excited to start farming for real, and I think my perspective on the project will definitely change once that starts happening for real. There are tons to still be excited about, as farming has always been something that’s therapeutic for me, and I think being able to finally get out there and farm will be really nice. I’m additionally really excited to talk to some people who are doing the farming work, because, in my experience, they are some of the kindest and smartest people who are so ready to share their knowledge and I’m really excited to learn from them.