Gearing Up For My Final Year

After doing very well (even if I do say so myself) on my work placement helping develop public security software in .NET. I am nearing the end of my time at the job. I have received great feedback from my team leaders at work and I am proud of the contribution I gave to the products I worked on. I have learnt a lot that will help me in the future and the experience has been extremely beneficial.
As I come to the end of my year (and a bit) in industry I see the final year of my degree getting closer. In order to prepare for my final year I have started to set up a source control server on a mini-atx box I have build and I have start reading papers in the area of research I have chosen to base my applied research project on.
Each paper I read makes the task I have chosen seem more complex and far bigger than I could have imagined so I am putting my efforts into narrowing down the key areas I am interested in for my proposed dissertation title.