Milestone 4

It's nearing the end of the semester and with that said the dread of a final project or paper is hanging over my head. For me to write a 20 page paper on an area which I have no background knowledge before this class, would be quite labor intensive. Not to say I couldn't do it, and maybe even do it well, but you really don't get as much out of a paper as you do a project.
I decided to compare a roundtable political deliberation with a online chat based deliberation. The only snag right now is that I'm having trouble rounding up participants. Could it be that everyone is either too busy or too uninterested to want to be bothered? Or maybe my fliers are just to dull and boring?
Either way I'm setting into panic mode. This is the only class I am worried about. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to let myself be talked into a class or staying with a class that is completely foreign to me when everyone else always has something to say.
I suppose this post has read more like a diary entry than a milestone. But the milestone is supposed to chart our steps toward fluency. Right now I'm at the step of panic in my fluency experience and the hurdles ahead.