proposal done, what's next?

Like one of my seniors once told me, “writing literature review as our thesis is BULLSHIT”. I strongly agree! I’m assigned to do literature review for my thesis. I personally think doing research is much more fun. At least you know what you’re doing, unlike me now, reading and getting loads of references blindly and write a review and summarized them. I’m not trying to show those who are doing research how free I am in this department with my thesis. I’m very grateful in getting the Department of Dental Radiology because in this department, they would want us to do only literature reviews without doing research and that would make us done with our thesis very fast and so, getting our bachelor fast before we continue with our clinical year.

I heard from seniors that we need to get a good partner in our clinical year. Don’t get the lazy ones. So that the hardworking ones can help us do things fast and graduate fast. Well, I believe everyone wants to graduate fast, didn’t want to stay longer in this place. So here I am, hoping my close friends who are currently busy with their proposals and researches to get their research done soon. Still remember the girl named Desi in my previous blogs? She is one of them who is doing research in the Department of Prosthodontics and yes, I was there to help her with her research =) She had her proposal done and what is happening next? Below are few photos on the day we’re working on it. She was doing this experiment to test the strength of the heat curing polymerized acrylic with glass fibers in it.

This is the machine used to test transverse strength

Photo of how the operator use the machine. He'll press some buttons and then all we need to do is to wait by the side till the acrylic broke while focusing at the numbers showing at the machine. From there, we will see how many Newtons it would need to break the acrylic.

This is the machine used to test impact strength.

Operator will place the acrylic on top. Slightly pressed the black button on top like what he did in the photo. Jot down the readings once the acrylic broke apart.

I helped checking on the broken acrylics and jotting down the data =)

Desi is analyzing data.

She was so stressed on the first day of experiment because the data collected on the first day wasn't like what she read form the journals she got.

Fortunately, everything turned out right on the second day! She is done collecting data and now she only got to do her discussion and then make a conclusion of her research. Good luck in your coming seminar, Desi !!