The research question of this project is “ What is the relationship between the socializing areas and happiness at City Tech.” These areas include the atrium, lounges, and cafeteria, etc. This topic that is about the socializing areas might be interesting because social interaction and socialization are important to people. These are the on-campus places that allow people to interact with one another in order to make connections and get to know more about each other. This topic might interest the current students because they may feel the need of improving some curtain socializing areas since they might already have their own ideas in mind. For the future students, this topic might be one of the elements that can affect their decisions of choosing which college to attend. They might wonder what socializing areas does City Tech have that can boost their happiness and have a good experience at City Tech. Also, the faculties and staffs at administration might be thinking of how to improve the school in order to build a better learning environment and socializing areas for all the students at City Tech. Therefore, this topic is really a important aspect that need to be improved to increase the well-being and happiness for the City Tech community.
There are many kinds of sources can be used in the project. Using the internet sources, such as looking for some information online is useful. However, for this particular project, it is important to gather the ideas, thoughts, and opinions from the staffs, faculties, and students at City Tech. This would be so helpful to help on creating a effective proposal for this project. Thus, besides of using the internet research method, it would be a good idea to conduct surveys, too. It is a important issue to know about how they think about the socializing areas in City Tech. It would be great if they can provide some suggestions of improving the socializing areas in City Tech. There are some questions that will address through this project. Some of these questions are: Do the students and staffs think that there is the need of making changes and improvements to the socializing areas? If so, where are the areas that need to improve? Do people like the socializing areas at City Tech? How often do they go to these areas? Do the socializing areas make them feel comfortable? Are the socializing area environments clean? Do the students feel that it is easy to find a seat at these socializing areas? What do they usually do at these socializing areas? Do they think that there is enough socializing areas? By finding out these questions, people can learn about how the socializing areas affect the sense of well-being for the City Tech community. The proposal of this project would be argumentative, and not just a statement of fact because everyone has different opinions and ideas toward these socializing areas, many interesting points will be generated through the research project in the end.