EE Journal #4 (19/10/08): Slow and Steady

Work on my Extended Essay for a while ground to a halt as I juggled other priorities but time continues to advance, and after a while I worked out that I better get back to work. One of the big things I need to determine before conducting my potential experiment on the diet of the [...]

EE Journal #3 (28/7/08): Narrowing My Topic

Today after working for an hour continuing my general research, I started working with my supervisor to try to narrow down the topic which I was going to focus on for my Extended Essay. During the hour which I spent researching with her, she noticed that the food which was recommended to be consumed over [...]

EE Journal #2 (15/7/08): Focus on Research

Since I last began thinking about the circadian rhythm of the Australian redclaw crayfish, I determined that probably the applications for a study into the this were too remote and useless, so essentially I was back to the drawing board. Today for the first time we had a lecture by the head of Information Services [...]

EE Journal #1 (8/7/08): The Journey Begins

Recently I’ve started working on my Extended Essay (EE), which essentially is a thesis level research paper of about 4000 words which I need to complete to attain my International Baccalaurate (IB) diploma. At this stage of the game, the idea of topics and potential areas of research are floating around. Because we’re able to [...]