This semester has been crazy! I think I need to have more of a social life than a student life right now….  This topic has taught me that yes I need to focus on my studies, but I love going out and being with my friends and family! 

There were several different struggles associated within my assignment, such as not being able to meet with my respondents to interview them, due to corona, but luckily we have social media! Choosing the topic for my assignment was stressful enough as I wanted to choose a topic in which everyone could relate too and speaking for myself, I struggle with this balance nearly everyday…. 

This topic is something that I am very interested in, I love going out and being with friends and I love being at uni and focusing on my studies but just like anyone else I struggle with doing both. Before creating the survey, I spoke to several of my friends and asked them if they struggled with this balance and lets just say they all agreed and said they find this balance very difficult to maintain. 

After I created my survey and sent it out on facebook and twitter, I was so confused with what to do next, due to social distancing I couldn’t actually meet people in public to interview them, so I was stuck and thought I would have to start all over again. Once I got over my dilemma I realised that I could just contact people on social media and well here we are! 

I uncovered several different ways on how to control this balance and I learnt how other people struggle and control this balance in their own ways. Even though I feel like there is a lot of aspect I could change within this assignment, I am so glad it is over! I feel as though I was able to understand my topic better after hearing other perspectives from other students. 

I have enjoyed being able to learn from others on how they control this balance and I have also enjoyed researching this topic! Lets just say, even after researching this topic and how to balance these two aspects, I am still struggling….. whoops…. I will learn one day…

– Charlotte 🙂