I thought 1500 words research report, compared to those brain wrecking essays, would be dead easy. I had a perfect plan in head, a small scale interview with the kids I teach in school, do a qualitative analysis on the data and Im done. Sounds perfect.

On the day Im teaching in school, I went to ask my mentor for permission to interview the kids, she told me I need to clear the research purpose with the Head Principal first. I went to do that straght away and showed him the questionnaire, but it did not get clearance, so I had to give up on this method.

At the end, I decided to do a secondary data analysis. I started looking for a suitable dataset from a governmental archive to download. After ages and ages of scrambling, I found one. although when I load up the data sheet on my pc ... I was absolutely shocked and speechless, I was staring at a gruesome 1800 variables on the screen, and I couldnt fucking tell which one means what, the lable is sooo crude and the answers coding just dont seem to make sense!! So I went back to the website, thought I should gain some documentary information from the original interview questionnaire, I spent the whole bloody night reading through the questions and still I aint got a clue how the answers were being coded and input into the system.

My research project is going hell wrong, there is little time and there is nothing I can do about it. Im at a lost right now and a horrible ringing headache which probably wont subside until morning.