My First Entry!

Hello reader!

Let us start this hopefully fruitful and consistent relationship with a basic introduction. My name is Sabrina Kharrazi and I am a senior at BASIS Scottsdale. I have called this worn down, makeshift school my home for almost seven years now. And for the first six years of that I expected, like everyone else, that in my senior year I would be completing a Senior Research Project. Since its establishment, the SRP program at BASIS has helped students conduct and even publish research that is meaningful not only to themselves but also the research's relevant academic community. So you can imagine my skepticism when I heard about the possibility of deviating from the long established SRPs and participating in the AP Capstone pilot program instead. Despite this uncertainty, my tenth-grade self enrolled in AP Seminar with an open mind. It was a lot of work, but I appreciated the opportunity to gain experience with college-level research assignments. Long story short, two years later, here I am, writing my first entry on a blog about my AP Research project.

Because of my long-standing love for concerts and basically just any live music in general, I have decided to investigate which factors of the general admission, standing only concert environment play the largest role in fostering the aggressive and subsequently violent attitudes that exists with the mob mentality. I will be attending several concerts at the Marquee Theater over the course of the following month (February) and collecting first hand data through an observational study. In fact, my first research concert will take place on Wednesday, February 3rd, and features The Neighbourhood. I will record my observations about security presence, general enforcement of preexisting venue regulations, and over-crowding in the venue. You can find a more through discussion of my research process in my proposal, which I will link to in the sidebar.

Hopefully this blog will continue to give you an ongoing look into the progression of my study. I look forward to sharing my experiences and findings with you all as I attend a handful of Arizona's many wild concerts!

Until next week,
Sabrina :)