Week 7

October 29th, 2014
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs.

      When I came in today, Stuart already had two sets of data surveys (the longer of the two surveys that we give out to the event goers) at my desk, adding up to about 150 surveys in total, so I worked on inputting the data from those surveys for the majority of my day. Before I go to work, however, I made sure to update Jane about my college application happenings. At around lunch time, Kyle and I arranged the OLC room for Aardvarks. Afterwards, I attended two meetings. The first one was a social media meeting, and everyone there was very happy about my feature on the Met Guild; apparently it got the most likes since a Pavarotti post (to think that I could be compared to Pavarotti even in something as small as this-- how cool!) Here is the Facebook post:

In addition to getting the last parts of National Opera Week organized, I was also assigned to create a post about Mozart's The Magic Flute and a promotional post about a 20th century opera course. If I weren't so busy because of school, I would have loved to attend this class! It talks about all of my favorite operas this season, Bluebeard's Castle, The Death of Klinghoffer, and The Rake's Progress!
      At 2pm, I attended the Community Engagement Meeting and I was happy to report that after making a small edit to the survey that I suggested last week, the people responded much better! The issue with last week's surveys was that the question about income levels was on the front of the sheet, making it easy for people to see other people's answers. I suggested it to be on the inside and surprisingly many more people ended up answering the question because of that small edit, in fact 11.7% more people answered the question when it was on the inside! Stuart seemed very happy because of that, so I'm glad that I'm really making a difference here at the Guild!
     I'm watching The Death of Klinghoffer this Saturday with a few friends from my precollege program at the Manhattan School of Music and I'm SO excited! I'll be sure to post some photos from that night in a future post.