All of this reading about creating a good theory and the components that goes into it stresses me out. All I can think of, is not only the research project for this class, but also my project for my capstone class. I have gotten good ideas where to start in terms of picking my topic, but at the same time I have no idea where to start. Last year when the IS capstone class was in the spring semester I got to hear a lot of people’s capstone projects at the research symposium and some of the projects that were making a  huge contribution to the political science world were really impressive. I would love to do something that is more than just a surface level capstone project, but I feel overwhelmed with the process of what it takes in order to create a good theory and research model. I wish that I had took this class last year, so that I would have a better foundation before going into my capstone project instead of doing  them at the same time. On the bright side, we are going over the building block of everything now, whereas in my capstone class we are focusing on grand strategy right and have not looked at capstone projects at all.