Putting It All Together

Completing this past term in LBST 200 helped open my eyes to the multiple paradigms and facets of research. After taking a previous research class at Capilano U, I thought I had learned all there was to research and how to implement it in my academic career but I within the first week of LBST 200, I quickly realized otherwise. As I introduced in my Framing Reflection #1, I conducted a “mock research project” on First Nations youth and suicide, similar to that of my Mod 5/ Mod 6 assignments. At the time of that project a few years ago, I found it to be quite a daunting task even though it was merely just a mock research project. All the assignments in LBST 200 really made me step out of my comfort zone and pushed me to a point of surprising myself as to how much I could accomplish. The assignment that stuck with me the most and made me learn quite a bit about myself and helped me find a new interest was Module 4 – Mining the past. In this module, I went back to the early 1900’s and found the original owner of a rental property my family currently owns in the Lonsdale area. I took advantage of the NVMA which I have walked past many time in my years in high school in Lynn Valley but never knew what the building was and how much interesting information it held and how that information would help me in this specific class. I also never knew I would be interested in archival material and conducting research on the past and how it affects us today. I’m sure the knowledge I learned this semester will stick with me and allow me to take on even more pressing research papers and projects in the future. I never knew, that the research class I took in previous years at Cap would be a stepping stone to this class and I’m sure LBST 200 will continue bridging difference concepts and classes together. All in all, this class not only pushed me to do more than I thought possible, it also introduced great peers and professors who I am excited to work with in the coming years while completing the program.