Sociology

Darling friends and loved ones,

So, I am taking a Sociology course this semester and it's on Youth Studies. My professor keeps making us do presentations (yay for speaking in front of the masses...ahem), and my next torturous event is coming up, in fact, tomorrow! (yippee!).

With that said, the presentation tomorrow is titled: Outline Presentation for the Final Research Paper. Sounds enticing doesn't it?

Let me take out a few excerpts from the many pages of hard-to-read instructions he's given out:
"You must find your group interesting to study since you need to be doing something every week to contribute to your final project in order to do well. You cannot come up with a research question (or thesis for that matter) the night before something is due. Your ideas need to percolate, you need to do lots of reading and searching and figuring out what is significant to you about this group. " Ha ha, yeah, definitely working on it the night before its due. Sigh. But I HAVE been thinking about it...does thinking count?

"What kind of approach (exploration, argumentation, etc.) and method are you using to facilitate your research paper - are you exploring a sociological idea, a case, or a historical event, doing an analytical reading of a film, advertisement, a text or a previous research study, or conducting an interview with someone and doing a sociological analysis on his/her experience?"

"These will include some of the resources that do not fit within a traditional bibliography - If you have sources - zines, media, video, audio, art, aesthetic materials of any sort - bring them and integrate them in your presentation."

So! The topic that I chose was on Mormons, specifically Mormon youth, and even more specifically the two year mission that the men are encouraged to do for 2 years when they turn 19.

So, because I want to end up with a grade that will make me look just as happy as the people on my text, please refer to image below, I definitely have incorporated some of these 'suggestions' that dear Unger has given.

I have interviewed a friend of mine who is Mormon via facebook (I did save it on word though...smart smart I know!), I will be attending her service on Sunday (which I just found out is three hours, from 11-2 and no eating in between, so definitely having a big breakfast), and also will be getting some magazines from her! So, unfortunately all three of these things should have been done BEFORE this presentation, but I think that I can even use this information in the final product due December 2nd. At least I will be able to tell the class, in my lovely presentation of this outline tomorrow, that I will be doing these things....brownie points Mr. Unger?

Anyways, my desk is fully immersed with Sociology, my brain is immersed with Mormon youth, and... sleep, always sleep... I think comma however, I do need a bulletin board of sorts. Sticky tac and papers just isn't really working for me anymore?

Anyways! Wish me luck, it will probably be a very late night tonight, but I look forward to the lovely A+ that I WILL get!

xoxo

You're Mormon consumed, yet not converting, friend,

Ruth