Week 1, Day 2 of Senior Project!

Today was just as great as yesterday! Erin picked me up from my house at 10:45 and we ventured over to Proctor’s campus. From 11:00 to 12:00, Erin and I were in meetings with Michele Koenig and our mentor, Jane Barban. We needed to meet with Michelle to discuss the requirements of hours per week spent with our Project Sponsor, Margaret Wulff. Our project differs from other Senior Projects because Erin and I are not working every day at one specific location. Rather, we are moving from restaurant to restaurant, from town to town, and from house to house. Thus, we are not able to spend 30 hours a week with our project sponsor. In our meeting with Michele, all our worries about not fulfilling the requirements were put to rest and Erin and I were once again on our way to make further progress with our project. In our meeting with Jane, we just touched base about how our project began and what our plans are for the rest of the week. We discussed the restaurant we already visited yesterday and, at the end of our meeting, we scheduled a meeting time with Jane for this Friday.

At 12:00, we left Proctor and drove to my house where Erin and I had a lunch break.

From 1:00 – 200, Erin and I discussed the plan for today and tomorrow, deciding that today’s time should be spent beginning, finishing, and polishing the reviews for the six restaurants we visited yesterday. I didn’t realize how much work writing reviews would be! I think I am already learning how to better develop logical and intriguing paragraphs for each restaurant. Additionally, each restaurant review takes more time that I thought it would take; it’s near impossible to write an excellent and precise review in less than 30 minutes.

At 2:00 we left my house and drove to Margaret’s house, where we stayed from 2:30 – 4:30. We informed Margaret of our meeting with Michelle and Jane and discussed our plans for tomorrow and the rest of the week. It’s so wonderful to have Margaret as a sponsor, and her ideas really open up our eyes to aspects of the project that we didn’t necessarily consider. For instance, both Erin and I figured that in our finished binder of the Top 20 Restaurants for Proctor Families, we would not include full sample menus for each restaurant. However, Margaret made a really great point that when deciding between restaurants, the menu is what really confirms a decision. With Margaret, we verified that each restaurant on our list met our requirements and would be great places to eat for Proctor families. We also came up with some really clever and fun ideas for our binder.

At 4:30, Erin and I left Margaret’s house and went to Erin’s house where we organized all the information we gathered from today. Erin and I decided that tomorrow would be the perfect day to go to Hanover and visit all our chosen restaurants in that area. Tomorrow night, Erin will be going out to dinner with her family to The Inn at Danbury and I am fairly certain that my family and I will be going to dinner at Bistro Nouveau. We will both take thorough notes and share our notes that next day.

At 5:30 I went home and from 6:30 – 7:30, I worked some more on my restaurant reviews. I researched the restaurants on the web, found their online menus, etc.

Tomorrow looks very promising! Until then –
Becca