Several days ago we simulated the old fashioned speed dating technique, except this time we weren't trying to find our "soul mates"- we were trying to pick our topic with the input from our speed dates. I thought this gave me a very good idea of which topic I want to further my research on. I've decided to focus on misconceptions of eating disorders, but why? Why would eating disorders and the way they are viewed in society be important to me and my peers? Well, I want to make sure that people who have eating disorders get the help they need rather than being shunned for their uncontrollable psychological disorder and my peers agreed with that idea. Yes, everyone had something nice to say about fast food advertising aimed towards kids, but many deemed that as too mainstream because child obesity was a hot topic that has burned out. In addition, my topic of correlating stress and your wellness seemed elementary to most of my peers. However, the misconceptions of eating disorders fascinated many of my peers making them ask me many question and giving me great input, such as giving me the idea of surveying kids around the school, to see what they think and why they think people get eating disorders, to build on my research. In fact, Hannah Conway gave me a great idea to branch off of my original idea. Her idea was to try and focus on the genetic aspect of eating disorders as well, which will thus prove that society does indeed misconceive the "uncontrollable disorder" part of eating disorders. I really appreciated the idea because it broadened my research as well as strengthened it which will affect my ultimate project very positively. But, my peers did not only give me a hand with improving my research topic, but I also gave them advice and guidance. Mostly everyone had one topic they had in mind, so to help them improve or narrow the focus of their one topic, I helped my classmates with being more specific and lent them ideas of how to gather more specific research to really strengthen their topic research and ultimate project, which I believe they appreciated as much as I appreciated their input.