The latest weeks our lives

Here we are again writing to the blog and commenting our project. This time of the year should be very enjoyable time to go outside and see all the snow melting and sun is shining. The summer is coming, but not yet... We still have lot of school work to complete before we can tune ourselves into the summer mood.

Spring is coming

As in last posting it was said that we were tired and too much work to do, surprise surprise it's not over yet. Last week we were playing with Amadeus distribution system and we found ourselves sitting in the class every day from 9 am to 7 pm. At least when I got home from school the only thing I did was to eat and sleep. So no progress in creating material to Lapland Meeting Guide. I have started to feel little panic if I can finish my part of the guide since Easter is just few days away. (I guess my project mates are feeling it too!)

In our research (comparing hotels in Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish Lapland) there were some times we didn't know what to do, do we have to write many reports or what? Now we know how to do it but the only worry we have is if we have enough time to complete it. All the tables that we have to modify, theory to write and of course the most important, our interpretation of results. Actually I feel little guilty because I found out I had done some mistakes in gathering information and now we have to change some of the results which means more work. But if we want to accomplish our mission the only thing is to work hard and not to pay attention to other things that are waste of time like playing games in internet. Unfortunately it is addictive.

Anyway, I can't even count how many programs we have learned to use in our school during the last 2 years. The newest one is SPSS statistics program in which we have entered the information we found about the hotels in different areas. Now we have 98 hotels around Europe and the data is ready to be turned into tables. Actually thats what we did in todays lecture. Now the next step is to share the parts ready to be interpreted and added to the raport. Deadline is in the halfway of next month so we can have some time to relax as well.

 

SPSS program logo

We all feel like time is going too fast and 3 months have gone just like that. Ahead we have these big projects and in addition few exams, presentations, distance work etc. I still believe in our team, we can make it happen despite little difficulties :)


Greetings,
Salla