Week 3, Day 14 of Senior Project!

Wow. Today was all work and no play from the moment Erin and I woke up until well after I came home. I worked 8 long hours today! However, it was all worth it for Erin and I got so much important work done. This project has really turned into something a lot bigger than we ever expected it to become!

I spent the night at Erin’s last night, making it much easier to begin work right away when we woke up. Today, work began at 10:00 and ceaselessly continued until 2:30 and then began again from 3:00 until 5:00 and then again from 6:00 - 7:30. At 10:00, I began the process of completely finishing all of my reviews, including the review for the restaurant Erin and I visited last night, The Old Courthouse. It took a little over an hour to finish up my last three reviews and when I did, boy did it feel good! Having all of my reviews squared away definitely took a load of stress off.

After finishing the writing process, I had to finish printing out, cutting, and pasting all of the additional photos. As I wrote in one of my previous blog entries, this process takes a good amount of time to complete. I decided that I was not going to take a lunch break until all of the pictures were pasted into the book! The last step was to upload the pictures taken last night, edit them, print, and paste them. The photos from last night turned out great, which was not a surprise, as the restaurant was very beautiful.

After our lunch break, Erin and I continued working from 3:00 – 5:00. Both of us finally completed our ten reviews each and decided it was the perfect time to peer edit each other’s reviews. First, I spellchecked all the reviews and then I carefully read through each and every one for grammatical errors. After fixing the very few grammatical errors that I found, I then read through all the reviews once more to make sure everything was worded correctly and to make sure there was nothing missing. Erin’s reviews were spot on and really impressed me! I’m so excited that Proctor Families will be able to read through our reviews for many years to come; we worked really hard on them.

In the meantime, while Erin finished editing my reviews, I looked through our binder to make note of any restaurants that didn’t have outside signs, for we use those photographs as the introduction to each new restaurant. Thankfully, there were only a few. In such cases, we just wrote the restaurant’s name in a nice font and color.

I then proceeded to create the word document that will be uploaded to the new software, Click Book. Erin and I decided that in our condensed version of our binder, it would be best to only include the name of the restaurant, the review, contact information, and the directions. Thus, I had to copy all of my reviews, re-locate all of the directions, and then reformat this information to fit the look we are striving to create in our mini Top 20 restaurant book. When I left Erin’s at 5:00, neither of us were finished with this process.

After I arrived home, I began work, once more, at 6:00 and stopped work at 7:30. In this time, I finished formatting the word document for our condensed version and sent it in an attachment over to Erin’s house, for the Click Book software is on her home computer.

Afterwards, I created the cover page for our binder that will introduce our readers to our senior project. I tried to incorporate a clear explanation of our Senior Project and why we felt it would be such an asset for the Admissions office. I am very pleased with the final product and think that it represents our book very well!

Until tomorrow –

Becca