Progress Report Week 1

The topic that I have chosen to pursue is how COVID-19 and Distance learning exposed big universities and how working from home, in most cases, is just as productive as commuting to work.  In my research journey, currently I am where I think I should be, currently researching all possible avenues for this project and finalizing the topic I want to discuss, weeding out doubt.  Some issues that I hit is time management.  Usually, I have a set schedule for working out, eating, studying, etc etc.  Due to COVID, the gyms have closed and I'm kind of at a standstill mentally because I have nowhere to let my energy go.  I barely get enough sleep due to my sister playing video games late at night, (usually till 1230 am or 1 am) and my room is right next to the TV, so that doesn't help at all.  Don't know how I'm going to overcome this.  This week I hope to get some resources and start writing the rough draft of the paper.  Possibly just dump information in and clean it up later.
Next week I plan on editing the paper and making sure coherent thoughts made it on the paper.

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