Final Reflection

It has been a whole semester that I was working on my research. I
Remember that I was completely lost when Professor Ghechi asked us to
choose an interesting topic related to university. I thought a lot about a
subject that could be useful for everyone, something different that reaches
a high level of reflection. So, I remembered a day when I was traveling
to Marrakech in train. As you know, when you have many hours to fill,
you talk a lot. My friend and I, were talking about Morocco’s
development and why are we so far away from cavitations like Europe or
United States of America. My friend told me that improving sport in
Universities could be a great field for our development. I told her that
before thinking of sports, we should think about how to decrease the
gap between us and the North by improving our economy and our
competition skills. Scientific research would be the best field to improve
because it covers all the fields that are deficient. So, when Professor
Ghechi asked us to find a controversial topic, I jumped at the chance.
It would be a great opportunity for me first, to know more about the
subject, but also to give an interesting project to all my classmates about
a topic that is quiet unusual.

When I started my research, I was completely lost because the topic was
too large. Obviously, I began by searching books on the library, but only
one was very useful because of the old dated journals that they have.
I also tried to get articles from Jstore or EBSCO Host databases, but no
results either. So I decided to talk directly to qualified persons. I asked
Mrs. Farida Tazi about research centers in AUI, and she led me to
Mr. Ahmed Driouchi, who conducts research in the Institute of Economic
Analysis and Prospective Studies, based in AUI´s building 1. I was so
desperate when he told me that he was too busy to give me a meeting.
But as usual, I never give up. I tried again many times, till he accepted
to meet me in his office for half an hour. He was very cooperative
and gave me many advices in addition to the interview. I followed my
research by searching relevant sources online an I found many interesting
articles. Magazines and Newspaper were also full of useful data.

Once I collected everything, I had to organize myself and make a
logical outline. I tried many ones, but the one I found the most interesting
was to use a time line in order to make a logical sense of evolution. I
began with the context of scientific research from late 90´s to 2010. Then
I focused on today’s situation and plans for the future. Frankly, I learned
so many things about this issue. I admit that I had so many wrong biases.
But I learned that even if we are an underdeveloped country, our leaders
are doing many efforts and making many reforms to make our system
of education better, because they realized that scientific research in
morocco is so essential to our evolution, and especially to our close
opening to external competition with strong economic countries such as
United States and European Union, which could be critical for our actual
protectionist economy if we are not well prepared.