Week 7: Evaluation

October 3rd, 2025 marks the end of the 7th week of this busy fall semester. Midterm season has certainly presented its own challenges in balancing my ever-growing workload. As previously mentioned, I have been assigned to complete the documentation for an interview the VHP conducted in the Spring of 2025 with veteran William Smith. I have thus far completed my abstract on the piece, a brief summary of the topics covered throughout the course of the interview. I am still working on refining and revising my AV log, which serves as a more comprehensive, thorough context tool that points out the exact time stamps in which different "chapters" of the interview unfold. Alongside this I have begun formalizing the transcription for the interview, providing another layer of clarity and context for those accessing VHP's public information. An unpolished version of the transcript is easily created with an adobe script, and it is my job to sort through the dialogue created and assure that accurate information regarding the conversation is published, and to fill in any of the holes that the text generator may have missed along the way. I hope to have these objectives completed by this upcoming Sunday, and I will promptly follow up with my team lead and project manager to see what tasks they would like to see completed or organized next.

On the earlier topic of midterms, I have received my midterm evaluation from Jessie Oldham regarding my performance thus far in the internship! I am lucky to have gotten excellent ratings regarding my ability to take responsibility, response to supervision, my professional attitude and knowledge, my ability to follow directions, and other similar occupational factors. I am delighted to hear that I have been satisfactory in these areas thus far. I have been less than exemplary on my promptness, which I agree is certainly accurate -- my response time is an easy target of improvement in most areas of my life. Moving forward I hope to continue to provide evidence of hard work and dedication, while of course improving on my timeliness. I love positive reinforcement (who doesn't?) and I feel encouraged by such feedback to translate my efforts into the work that I am putting forward on my other Public History Center project, the automation and improvement of the PRINT database and search/network queries, as well as the demands of my other classes, work at LibTech, and employment outside of UCF. It's all a balancing act, as every busy college student and multi-tasking graduates discover.

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