Week 8

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Start: 11:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 5.25 hrs.

     Today I came in on a Thursday since I visited Brown University yesterday and couldn't come to my internship. Lucky for me I had today off because of the Teachers' Convention so I got to come to my internship today. I came in later than usual and Stuart had one data survey for me to enter into Excel. I was interrupted in between logging in the info when Kyle came and we went to the OLC to set up for Jane's lecture, the last of a three-part series about Verdi Baritones. After setting up I was able to go back to the office and finish up the survey before I had to go out to the main lobby to welcome the people who came for the lecture. I helped tear people's tickets and hand out surveys (a program survey this time). Afterwards, I got to watch Jane's lecture too! Even though this was the only lecture of the three that I was able to watch, I really enjoyed the lecture. And not only was it a lecture, but there was also a live performance by a Verdi baritone named Dong Kyu Oh and he was very, very good! I really enjoyed both the performance and the lecture. What I think I enjoyed most was the way the Jane gives her lectures. She's very expressive, as if she's singing (and she is a singer, by the way) and always knows when to throw a good joke in every once in a while. But most of all, she is passionate! I have a project coming up in Senior Music Seminar where I have to talk about Schumann, so I hope I can get a few tricks from her!

     I had to rush out of the OLC after the lecture in order to collect everyone's surveys so once I got back to my desk, I was busy logging in another survey! Even though the program survey is much shorter than the data survey, the program survey is much more difficult to log because you have to check all of the questions that apply instead of only choosing one answer, so that took about an hour and a half to finish. I'm very curious to see what becomes of all of this data.