The biggest thing to note about the process of writing my paper is the inability to satisfactorily investigating my primary question. The surveys resulted in a lot of interesting data and remarks, most of which aligned with what I expected. However, the only students who left their email addresses for a follow-up interview wrote complete answers to the other survey questions and I felt like I had as much information from them that I would want. I did not see a need to interview them because the answers they gave did not require any exploration; these students all had answers in the 3-4 range on personal value on education and full answers for why they are getting a degree. I would have had to expand my survey sampling or question other students until finding the rare one that came into interest to be able to satisfy my questions on motivation…