Week 10 – Final Stages

Allison Y -

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog!

This week I’ve been busy editing my presentation. After my presentation rehearsal this past Monday, I have a few things to tweak. Currently, I’m still putting together my results and analysis part since I was having trouble deciding how to analyze my data. But now, after meeting my mentor yesterday, I have a clearer plan on how to approach that part. I hope to do a quantitative-descriptive analysis and overall compare/contrast the data that I have. In general, my results section in the presentation was a bit too long during rehearsal, so I plan to cut it down to make it more succinct and to the point. As I continue to fix all these parts, I will also continue to practice and refine my talk during my presentation. 

For my final product, as I mentioned before, I’ll be writing a research paper. I’m around halfway done with it and have been meeting with Professor Mommaerts to help me edit the paper to make it polished and ready to read. I will finish the rest of my paper by this week, so I can make some more final edits before I submit it next Tuesday. 

What was also exciting was that this past weekend, I was able to meet my mentor in-person in Flagstaff! I was part of the All-State orchestra, and the festival was at Northern Arizona University (NAU). I invited Professor Mommaerts to the concert, and she was able to attend. It was a pleasure meeting her in-person and almost like a full circle moment since the project is coming to an end. 

Anyways, that’s all for today. Thank you for reading, and see you all next time with more updates!

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    tanay_n
    Hey Allison! I'm excited to listen to your presentation! I'm curious to know if you had an unexpected results with your surveys?
    April 20, 2025 at 10:52 am - Reply
    anagha_n
    Hi Allison! It's great that you were able to meet your mentor in-person. For your data, I'm curious about why you decided to do a quantitative-descriptive analysis?
    April 20, 2025 at 12:03 pm - Reply
    akshaya_k
    Hi Allison! It's so cool that you finally got to meet your mentor in-person! What made you decide to write a research paper for your final product?
    April 20, 2025 at 5:10 pm - Reply
    allison_y
    Hello Tanay! I didn't have many unexpected results as most of the results did support pre-existing research on how music had a positive effect on mental health. However, one thing I noticed was that college students did struggle with mental health, but at different severities. Research online showed a high prevalence of mental health struggles but in my data, it was not as high as the stats out there.
    April 23, 2025 at 1:02 pm - Reply
    allison_y
    Hello Anagha! I decided to do a quantitative-descriptive analysis since it fit perfectly with the data I had. It was the most practical analysis tool in this case with the time as well. Most of my data was already in pie charts and by doing a correlation/compare-contrast analysis, it was easy to gather and discuss the results.
    April 23, 2025 at 1:04 pm - Reply
    allison_y
    Hello Akshaya! I decided to do the more traditional route of writing a research paper since I knew it would be the best way to show all my data. I felt that through a paper I could explain more than through a poster or a brochure. Also, my mentor has published many papers and I knew I would be able to gain the best guidance and help if I did a paper.
    April 23, 2025 at 1:11 pm - Reply

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