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Messed up my dissertation???

Hi everyone!
So I am going into my final year of physical geography at Exeter. I have decided to do my dissertation investigating heavy metals in roadside dust.

As part of my dissertation I need do fieldwork and collect samples from 4 roads. I said to myself that I would be super organised and plan everything well. However, this has not happened because I am a panicking disorganised person.

For a start, I am collecting way too many samples (12 over a 3km stretch) which is taking pretty much a whole day to do. This ultimately means that some for one of my roads, sample collection ended up running from late afternoon to evening and another road went from morning to evening which are 2 completely times of the day with different traffic rushes.

Additionally, I needed to collect samples in the ideally 3 days after rain. I was able to do 2 roads this week in the july heatwave, but I have 2 more to do which will probably be next week after the Thursday storm and about 1 or 2 days after rain.

There was also one point where I could collect samples in one of my roads because it was a flyover, so I decided to eliminate it from my list of samples. I wish I'd collected an alternative sample but both me and my dad were so exhausted we just went home. I've only got 11 samples for that road.

Finally, my way of dust collection has changed. For my first road I had a quadrat of 2m2 from which I collected dust from. However, for my second roads there simply wasn't enough dust in each quadrat so I had to go beyond the bounds.I'm also slightly worried about contamination from the chalk markings I drew.

Those are the main things but I'm constantly worrying about how poorly organised I've been and how there were so many things I could've done better if I'd actually planned it properly. I know and accept that it was all my fault- I kinda rushed the fieldwork when I realised that the weather would be really good this week.

I have been stressing constantly about it. I have no motivation to write up my methodology because I messed it up so bad. I just want a second chance to plan it all properly again.

Does anyone have any advice?