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Self Reflection

01. How do you think you are doing so far in your senior project and why?  AE, P, AP, CR, or NC

I feel like I am doing P worthy work considering that I decided to change topics when I did, completing my research over again and lining up service learning opportunities. 

02. What one thing do you think you have done well on and why?

I feel like I have done well in organizing my new research after switching topics and keeping everything together in one place.

03. What is one thing you would like to improve on and why?

I would like to actually start my service learning already as opposed to waiting until January. Waiting until that point and time makes me nervous.

Blog #8: What I've Learned So Far

1) What have you learned how to do since you started working on your senior project?

- I have leaned intricate details to the inner working of things that belong in a vehicle or on a motor. For example I have learned how to pull a transmission out, with experience as well as rotate tires change brakes check oil a lot of the basic but still valuable information. I’ve also learned how to sand and strip a body of paint to prepare it for a new paint job.

2) Post evidence of this accomplishment.  It can be in the form of a picture, video, document, etc..

This is a hood that I worked on that was completely sanded down from rust and put back onto a truck to be ready for painting.

3) What research helped you to do this and how?*

- Currently my most important source would be my service learning, Antonio Sainz. He has not only explained to my why it is curtain things function the way the do but as well as showed me and taken me through the process in our service learning time. 

Blog #1: Senior Project Topic

Q: What is your topic?

A: My senior project is on Automotive Mechanics with a main focus in the area of off roading.

Q; Why?

A: I chose to do automotive mechanics because I have personally been off roading since I was about 8 years old and it is something that my family and I do every Sunday and I happen to enjoy a great deal. My father builds all of our trucks and since I was young I would always watch him work on the trucks we broke, abusing them in the mud. I forever wondered how it all worked and now that I’m old enough to understand it I would like to get the chance to help my dad and learn how to work on the trucks to.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish after studying this topic all year?

A: At the end of the year I hope to be able to take the trucks out on my own and if there is a problem while I’m out in the mud be able to fix it myself without having my dad there with me. When your out off roading and you break down you have to get towed home because where we go, you are in dam and there is no professional to help you all you have is your knowledge and the tools you bring with you to fix whatever might break. I want to be capable of fixing anything that happens to my truck while I’m out.