That One Where I Show How Awkward I Get

These are elevator speeches I wrote, and included the scenarios in front of it. Just picture the tone being awkward and trying my best.

It’s the start of the fall semester and you’re early for a class. Your professor is already in the classroom. They make small talk and ask how your summer went.

Good morning! My summer went well, I stayed on campus. I was doing research with the library and working more with digital scholarship and web design. I worked with some lithographs in Special Collections that are absolutely gorgeous, and I made a digital exhibit analyzing origins and inspiration behind the art pieces. I used some of the digital tools we learned about to annotate them and mapped out the points of where they came from. I’d be happy to come in to your office hours and give you a tour of it if you’re interested, or just email you the link at a later time?

You’re at a job fair and the recruiter is looking over your resume; they ask you, “What’s this Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship?”

Thank you so much for asking! It was a summer research fellowship that I did with the library at Gettysburg College where I learned a lot about digital tools, web design, and definitely improved my research skills. The tools I used I’ve seen in multiple publications online, including USA Today, but the platform I used was WordPress. I used them to build a digital art exhibit with some lithographs of 1890s posters we had in Gettysburg’s Special Collections that annotated the pieces and mapped out the location of each event the posters advertised. It definitely improved my computer and technology skills, and if you give me your contact information I’d be happy to send you the link along with a digital copy of my resume.

-Britt