Xiomara

The project that I am working on is the ACSSES and GUTS studies. What’s interesting about working within both studies is the amount of people that are willing to participate. For the ACSSES study there are home visits and people are willing to answer all the questions and get tested. They also allow their children to be part of the study. The fact people from all over the country are interested in help the study progress by giving time and information about themselves is something that I thought would be difficult but the real difficulty is sorting all the information, uploading it to the computer and filing it away.

This program has helped me to work in different situations, inside an office as well in other people’s homes. I have learned how to deal not only with adults but with the children of the participants in other words how to act. The lunch that we have together has allowed for everyone to get to know each other and be comfortable it has also been a good tool in helping us with our speech skills so we can be prepared for our presentations on the projects that we took on. The lunch that we had with the undergrads forced us to talk with people we really did not know and to find a way to come out of the awkward situation and present ourselves to each person over and over again to eliminate some of the nervousness that we had. I feel as though everything we are doing with in this program is to prepare for when we have a large audience that way we will be confident when we have to speak on our individual projects.