I feel like I got a good deal accomplished this week. By Tuesday I had completed the 1st draft of my essay on satellite TV in the Middle East. Along the way, I had some really interesting conversations with people on the topic, which apparently strikes other people as interesting too. I got back the 2nd draft of my essay on the headscarf with comments from my mentor and hope to have a revised version done sometime next week. At the moment, I'm holding off on starting a 3rd essay, but ideally I will start working on it late next week. Whether that happens is highly dependent on when I finish my college application due next week.

This afternoon, I will be meeting with Alex Cromwell for feedback on my essay. I hope she can point me in the direction of stylistic improvements I can make to my writing. Although the English component of my product (and grade) is smaller than the history component, I'm taking it very seriously and hope this experience will improve how I write.

All told, I think I maintained a good level of progress during what has been an unbelievably busy week. I need to keep up this kind of pace if I want to have my product in on time. This pacing, rather than any roadblocks with content, continues to be my single greatest issue, but this week, at least, I seemed to have improved.