This is my last time in lab before our presentations next Thursday. (Everyone should totally come to the WPU Assembly Room to see all of the FER presentations on 4/17 from 4:30-6!) It's really weird to think that today might have been my last time logging into Itinera. My freshman year is ending, and it's overall just a really weird feeling. It's even worse when I think about how I will be in Tanzania in a month and France in a year. Everyone says college moves so fast and its so true. Maybe that's true because the summer starts in April...
Regardless, I have learned so much from working with Alison and Alex in the VMW. I've learned so much about the digital humanities and history. I never really thought about how people write history, a conversation Alex and I had today, or what research really is until I stepped into this lab. I learned a lot about what specifically is data and the many ways it can be inputted. I, of course, learned about the Grand Tour, but I am also leaving with tons of "transferrable skills," as Dr. Streeter put it. Overall, this has been such a great experience, and I'm glad I cam to this lab. Hearing my friends' horror stories from other labs, especially science related ones, I'm ecstatic that I was lucky enough to particpate to fully in the project. I can't believe that this, and my freshman year, are ending--it's been great!