Surveys, interviews, and such

For my paper, I plan on taking surveys from college students and maybe even try to contact kids from my high school and see if there's a difference in the way high school and college kids spend their time. By doing that, hopefully I can see if there's an emotional difference between the two types of schools.

Questions I can ask may be:
How often do you do school work? In doing so, how often is that last minute?
How often would you say you're stressed when doing school work? Why?
Do you find yourself more productive after you've spent time with friends and then doing homework? If so, why?
How often do you find yourself laughing or joking around throughout the day? Would you assume that you produce better work when you're happy?

I also hope to maybe talk to a therapist and maybe see if they see a difference in patients' work and lifestyle when they're happier. Also, maybe even a teacher or professor to see if they can tell by school work whether a student was stressed or upset when they finished an assignment and see if they know that that affected their work or not.

Steven Johnson

Johnson talked about using resources we already have to create machines that we use everyday. For instance, he talks about how the Indonesian city of Meulaboh received eight new incubators after the tsunami to help decline the death rate of new born babies. But, after some odd years, the machines broke and no one knew how to fix them because the manual were in English. So instead of trying to fix them, they all were left there to collect dust. So, instead of creating machines no one knows how to fix and sending them to foreign countries, why don't we use the resources that the country has to create the same machine? That when they decided to use car parts to create incubators. Since they can keep their cars running, they should be able to fix the incubators, too. That's pretty creative in my opinion. So what I was thinking that instead of us buying complicated machines and having to bring them to someone professional to fix it, why don't we also use things that can easily be fixed with some common skills and knowledge. That could also lead to using recycled goods and limiting our waste. But how easy would that be? And, would that even be practical or useful?