This weekend I went home for my sister’s graduation from high school. While I was home I went to 8 graduation parties for 12 of my sister’s classmates. Because I have not been home since January many people wanted to catch up with me. I told them about my trip to Morocco, Little Rock and this fellowship. Each time I explained my research, my elevator speech got a little better. I am going home this weekend for my sister’s graduation party and I will mingle with more people and talk to them about my research. I will also practice my elevator speech with them. I did not have a hard time explaining my research, I actually had a harder time explaining this fellowship and the digital humanities.
Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows 2017
Musselman Library, Gettysburg College
Practice, practice, practice! It gets easier with time. Then it actually gets harder, because you start to wonder if you’ve given the same speech to a person before and they already know the basics and want something more …