Hi, my name is Regine Victoria and I am a Communications major
with a focus in Journalism and a double minor in Photography and Multimedia
graduating in May 2019.
I’ve always had an interest in nutrition and health, but seldom
did I ever receive an opportunity to pursue an in-depth look at it—until this
past spring semester. I was finally able to attend a nutrition course! As the
semester came to a close, my disappointment in the discontinuation of the
curriculum started to surface. But during the final weeks, I received an email
in my inbox about a research opportunity during the upcoming summer on nutrition. Next thing I know, I’ve
applied and been accepted.
The skills, knowledge, and research I’ve acquired and conducted
over the course of the past ten weeks can be useful well beyond this
project. As communications major with a
focus in journalism, research is a skill key to my future career. Additionally,
nutrition is useful beyond research and writing papers. It’s an essential field
of knowledge to learning to eat healthier and to lead a healthier life in
general and I can take everything I’ve learned and apply it both to my life and
spread what I’ve learned to others.
The work I conduct on a weekly basis is a combination of
research, analysis, and writing. I continuously had to search through databases
and read articles in order to give myself background knowledge, find areas in
which my research would fill the knowledge gaps, and look for papers to support
my study. Much of my work involved coding and I had to constantly learn and
relearn how to code we gathered from data bases so we could analyze the data.
This project has helped me discover and uncover my unknown love
for coding. It was very frustrating when I got stuck or I didn’t know what to
do or I didn’t get a result that I wanted, but whenever I was able to figure it
out and have a breakthrough, especially times when I did it on my own without
outside help, it was the most fulfilling and satisfying feeling.
