Big Ideas Class: November 25, 2015

Today, I attended a class at the office called "The Big Ideas Talk". This class began with a presentation full of information on chiropractic, upper cervical chiropractic, what it means to be healthy, and what you can do to be healthy. A bulk of this talk was directed to clients of my mentor, but the information portion of what she does and how it relates to the body was very helpful in what I am researching. It helped direct my research towards a path where I focus more on the importance of the nervous system to the body rather than the affects that a dysfunctional nervous system has on your body. This was a big difference since I was able to focus on a more broad subject rather than something that it more specific.

This class was able to help me learn more about the field that my mentor is in. Being highly interested in upper cervical chiropractic, it was helpful to know the why behind this type of chiropractic. It also made it more knowledgeable to how the nervous system should really be functioning. A lot of people can mistake their pain for something else, but with a properly functioning nervous system, your body will be able to be more adept to healing faster and properly.

2 hours

Initial Meeting: November 23, 2015

In this first meeting, my mentor and I talked about what the Senior Capstone Project was and how she can help with it. We continued to talk about subject I could research using Gale and other websites. While on the topic of research, we began to converse about what documents she has and how it could help my research. She gave me a couple of books with basics on the nervous system so that I would not get into too much detail talking about her line of work. My mentor pointed out some pages that had extensive sections that would greatly help me on learning on the basics of my project. 

After we talked about my research, we began to talk about my volunteer hours and how they would work. We mainly spoke about the types of things I could do around the office and meeting that I could help her run or attend with her. Her work does not do big events so I would mostly be helping her and her office partner with things around the office. Continuing on the topic of work, I kept asking questions about the future and how I could offer my help to her work during the summer before I head off to college. We'll see where I end up after all of my volunteer hours. 

Time logged: 1 hour