Consider opportunities like these to narrow the scope of your project (to make it manageable) and to make it important to you and to your future:
- Acquainting, or better acquainting, yourself with a particular microenvironment, ecosystem, plant or animal species, culture or place
- Giving voice to a specific environmental community, victim, need, or opportunity
- Reaching out to a scholar or research team you admire--this could entail a combination of literary review, interviews and visits (in person or virtual), and plugging yourself into a project that the scholar or team is working on
- Borrowing or tweaking an existing case study or methodology to apply to a different locality, microenvironment, or ecosystem from the original
- Updating an existing research report or case study
- Addressing a question that another researcher's work has raised or suggested for future study
- Exploring a potential path to take in life or to take vocationally? Is there "an itch" in this regard that you really need to scratch--and sooner rather than later?
- Designing your project to help you get into certain doors--graduate school, fellowships, internships, jobs
- Narrowing the scope of your project not only to make it manageable, but also to allow yourself to dig deep
- Carrying forward a long-term project that a previous Wofford student initiated; or initiating such a project for other people, including future Wofford students, to carry on
- Weaving different interests of yours (in the sciences, arts, and humanities) or seemingly disparate threads of your life together
- Further developing certain practices, skills, or talents of yours; working on your conduct of life, your habits of heart and mind
