{"id":3829,"date":"2025-07-17T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:48:38","slug":"reflections-and-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/2025\/07\/17\/reflections-and-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections and Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my first blog entry, I acknowledged that I might have to change my argument around to better encapsulate the new information I encountered in my research. Now, I can say with certainty that was true! In fact, I ended up changing my whole project during the program and had to get on the right track quickly in order to get everything done in time. I worked with my mentor to figure out a new direction (and a new project!) which has helped me learn more about Elizabeth than I had previously known. I am glad that I got the opportunity to change directions, I feel like I have learned more than I thought I was going to by going down this path. It was really hard at the beginning when I realized that my previous thesis was not going to hold up with this new form of inquiry, but I had to learn how to pivot and appreciate what I got from the experience. I think that my biggest piece of advice for future WAGSFP fellows is to be comfortable with your research taking you places you haven&#8217;t been and didn&#8217;t think you&#8217;d go! There is so much to learn and appreciate in the journey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my first blog entry, I acknowledged that I might have to change my argument around to better encapsulate the new information I encountered in my research. Now, I can say with certainty that was true! In fact, I ended up changing my whole project during the program and had to get on the right&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/2025\/07\/17\/reflections-and-moving-forward\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflections and Moving Forward<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-cohort","category-blog-posts","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3831,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/wagsfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}