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Dear Mr. Meredith:
PRACTICUM BLOG
Welcome to the
Dear Meredith Practicum Blog!
Here you will find blog posts that chronicle the
journey of my Practicum for my
Archives & Special Collections Graduate Certificate
at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Endings Are Just New Beginnings
November 20th - November 27th, 2022 I have finally come to the end of my Practicum! I completed 150 hours of transcription and...
Telegrams, Postcards, and Postage
November 13th - November 19th, 2022 Every time I open one of the pdf letters, it's like a little treasure. I never know what I am going...
ANOTHER Hurricane and My New Research Assistant
November 6th - November 12th, 2022 Well...Murphy showed his true colors once again and we got hit with Hurricane Nicole. This time it hit...
Microagressions
October 30th - November 5th, 2022 The letters that I am transcribing are ones that are pro-integration. However, even though the letters...
Slow and Steady
October 23rd - October 29th, 2022 As it turns out, typing with one hand is incredibly difficult. Who knew? My Practicum Advisor had told...
10/10 DO NOT Recommend
October 16th - October 22nd, 2022 Ever hear of Murphy's Law? No? Well, it is the purest definition of my life, so here it is: Murphy's...
Midterm
October 9th - October 15th, 2022 We have reached the halfway point of my Practicum and I had a Zoom meeting with my Practicum Advisor and...
Handwriting and Meredith Red Markings
October 2nd - October 8th, 2022 HANDWRITING! Some letters have handwriting that is really easy to decipher and are quick to transcribe....
We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program...
September 25th - October 1st, 2022 To bring you Hurricane Ian! I live on the Space Coast which is on the eastern side of Florida so we...
Rinse and Repeat
September 18th - September 24th, 2022 For the most, this project is fairly straight forward... I review and download pdfs of letters,...
How the Letters Are Saved
September 11th - September 17th, 2022 When working on a large project such as this one that will involve many moving parts and quite a...
GAME. CHANGER.
September 4th - September 10th, 2022 One of the hardest parts of transcribing from home is that I have been doing it from my laptop with...
Transcribing History
August 28th - September 3rd, 2022 One of the coolest aspects of this project for me is getting to be a part of sharing this history with...
Review and Download
August 14th - August 21st, 2022 To begin this project, I will need to open links in an Excel document that were provided to me by my...
And So It Begins...
July 5th, 2022 Today I met with my Practicum Advisor via Zoom! I’m doing an archivist internship for my Archives & Special Collections...
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