Writing a final paper about the Iconoclastic Fury of 1566 in the Netherlands.

For my Statistics class, we had to complete an independent statistics project. My partner and I looked at crime statistics for different kinds of undergraduate institutions and used different statistical tools like linear regression. Did I mention I'm not a quantitatively inclined person?

The hardest project I've worked on at Carleton has also been the most fun. As part of a course called First Language Acquisition, I wrote a substantial paper and presentation analyzing a published work and outlining a hypothetical experiment that examined the acquisition of lexical semantics in one- to two- year olds. To write this paper, I also ran a pilot study of my experiment with one- to two- year old "acquisitionists" I had been observing for the course as sources for primary data. An in depth analysis that requires juggling many threads, critical thinking, and many, many drafts occupying your mind is difficult, but rewarding.

An independent lab project for Ecosystems Ecology that examined rates of decomposition. Our small group had to go out and find a topic, design the experiment, run it, and cull the results, which took FOREVER, and was HARD.