Reflect on your internship and complete this sentence: “Because of my internship, I am….”
…well versed in using ESRI’s Story Maps, a narrative tool that seems to be taking off and that I’ll hopefully be able to use on subsequent projects. I also have gotten to know how the Library works via one corner of it–the Veterans History Project.
I’d say I’m still in the dark about how Story Maps works, and particularly how it is that I regularly seem to mysteriously lose some of the work I’ve done, despite its being saved to the ESRI cloud. These are the quirks of “backend” DH that I’d still like to learn, and that the GMU DH program would do well to teach more about, in my opinion.
I’m also much, much better versed, on account of the project that VHP gave me, in how the U.S. Armed Forces works. I’m grateful to this, as it’s something any voter should know more about, and something the great majority of the population has forgotten about since we ditched the draft 45 years ago. Finally, I’m more knowledgeable about a community that I knew embarrassingly little about before the project began, and that’s the American Indian population. The fact that more Native Americans serve in the Armed Forces per capita than any other ethnic group is an astonishing fact that I won’t soon forget.
