Blog Assignment #10: Research Project Reflection

My research experience taught me valuable life lessons that I can incorporate into the future. I found it interesting how we were able to gather so much information in such a short amount of time. Our group could not get the bees located in the campus garden to feed on our artificial nectar. A possible reasoning behind this would be that they are already being fed. Another difficulty was creating an artificial environment for the cabbage white butterflies so they would move naturally. We weren’t able to get the cabbage whites to indulge our artificial sugar water so we had to force them. I was proud of my group and the amount of effort we put towards the last few days. If we were able to put that effort in all our days of research, our experiment and data would’ve came out better. As a team, we could’ve improved on our time management skills. I was surprised by how little factors can affect the behaviors of our cabbage whites. Without natural light or warmth, they stay idle. Thus making it hard for us to work with them.

In 5 years, I’ll remember that this is one of the hardest classes I’ve taken at EDCC. My gpa has only dropped ever since I started taking Biology. I’ll for sure remember this experiment and the ways I should properly approach any experiment. Lastly, I’ll remember my bad habits that Gwen pointed out and try to improve those behaviors.