I forgot to mention...

...how helpful having my "every 2 weeks" journals. I had TOTALLY forgotten some of the things that I had done over the summer and how I felt about them. To have the journals was especially imperative for me since I had so many different aspects attached to my learning activity. By researching my own journal entries, I added a lot more to my presentation because I was able to talk about all the different things that I did. I know that the requirement is different now, but I really think that doing the journals was helpful. I know not everyone's projects lent themselves to this format, so maybe the modification can just be to advise the seniors next year to write after every single time they do something of significance. Make sure they write down EVERYTHING because you really don't know if you're going to need to remember something or use it later.