Deb you have to figure things out by yourself in order to learn. If you keep relying on everyone only telling you what to do step by step, cumbersomely by text posts on a forum, you will hardly learn anything. You have to put your brain and mind in stress, make the mistakes and try to fix them, so you start to develop intuitions on what modeling is. I keep saying, modeling practically re-wires your brain, and that only comes from the struggle of problem solving, not by others solving all the problems for you.
We can only help as much before helping out starts giving diminishing returns. Try finishing the model on your own, even if it looks bad and messy, then try it again and you’ll see the next time around it will be a bit better and you will start to see what you did wrong. That’s how you develop.
