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Over the course of my field study, there were a few times where I could have changed methods or revised my overall hypothesis but chose to be stubborn and stick it out, and at other times, the feedback I received from others helped my revise my study in a few ways. The support that I received from my parents and sister and their help with the study was very important to me and it was amazing to have help when I needed them and I could not have done my study properly without their help. Ecology was an unknown world of information to me before I took this course and I never imagined in the beginning how much of the information would pertain to the real world, as some other courses don’t always do. I also definitely did not think I would learn so much about the Mallard duck and their habitat preferences. At times I struggled with managing my time, especially as my other courses started at TRU in September and I had originally wanted to be finished by the time the fall semester started but things don’t always go as planned. Something that definitely would have helped would have been reading some literature related to my study closer to the beginning of the course which may have helped guide my methods of collecting data rather than leaving it to the end of my study. Taking part in this course has increased my knowledge and appreciation for how scientists hypothesize ecological theories and how they conduct their research!
