My topic is about a current event. It is about an airplane. My topic doesn't have books written about it yet. There is a book about the plane but not the problems. I was told to explain why a book about the plane was relevant to a paper about the plane. The book is about the airplane I am writing about. I think this is relevant and I am not smart enough to explain why a book about a plane would be useful in writing a paper about the plane. I think common sense would say why it would be useful but I am told no, common sense isn't enough.

I have been a researcher for many years. I work 40 hours a week and even more than that. I am not smart enough to figure out new ways to research. I put in my topic and then I read and look for information that I think would be helpful and then a put that in. This is not the way smart people research I guess.

I look for books by typing my subject into the little box on the library page where it tells me to do that. Then I look at what the computer screen tells me about the book. I can not check out every book. I can not read books overnight, I have other classes and a job and children and rent to pay and food to cook and plumbing to fix. I have been getting good grades, some of them VERY good but now I must do my work in school the way the school tells me to do it so I am doing this. Since I can not get my book delivered and read all of it in a week and I mistakenly put my job and my children and my husband before this assignment and did not do this the first week I am wrong, even though I can deliver a paper on time. I must learn the way I am told to learn now, not the way that I learn.

I did not find looking for books difficult but I must find a problem. It takes time to have the books delivered. I have been using the Leatherby Library for three semesters but I can not figure out how to prove I know how to use it.

If I knew where my research would take me I wouldn't need to do the research. I am not hoping to find anything specific, if I were I would search for the specific premise and simply report on that, there would be no conclusions necessary and the joy of discovery, which has been all but beaten out of me this semester, would become completely non-existent, buried in the berm created by the tunnel vision educational methods of today.  The Liberal Arts Major are largely scorned by the social sciences and considered unfocused as opposed to well rounded. I mourn the loss of the classical education of days gone by. But then, that is a blog and not an answer.