{"id":1548,"date":"2025-06-17T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:00:05","slug":"back-to-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/back-to-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s rough, thinking you have the perfect research question, imagining a plan that everything will follow smoothly, As I should known with all our mentors past stories and all of the tellings of failure, our brilliant research question was pretty much garbage. After doing an interview with someone in the autonomous vehicle industry, she told us that our research probably wouldn&#8217;t be used, but gave us some useful insights on what may be used. So, that&#8217;s our progress on our research so far, at least we know what we shouldn&#8217;t research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, I&#8217;m going to be posting some things that I noticed that were not practical, or in my head, what is the point of having this stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-783x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1567\" style=\"width:402px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-783x1024.png 783w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-768x1004.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-1175x1536.png 1175w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8.png 1222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know these are towel holders, but I feel like they should be further apart, it just feels not practical to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"861\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-1024x861.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1568\" style=\"width:439px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-1024x861.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9-768x645.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-9.png 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was wondering, why is this right at the bottom and close to my feet. I get it&#8217;s for structural use, but can&#8217;t it be moved up a bit and further back?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s my rant for today, thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rough, thinking you have the perfect research question, imagining a plan that everything will follow smoothly, As I should known with all our mentors past stories and all of the tellings of failure, our brilliant research question was pretty <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/back-to-the-beginning\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}