UCF Internship Blog

  Hello everyone and welcome to another week of my internship and corresponding blog post. This week was quite mixed on the spectrum of good and bad spreading amongst the various aspects of my life, and similarly to the past few weeks, most of my work has been the same across all classes and projects for the most part. Well, the one thing that pushed this week into the negative was finding an issue with my car that required the utmost panic and speed to get it back. This was also on the day where I had a quiz and a discussion post due. As you could imagine throwing this kind of wrench into the turbine of me preparing for these two things throughout the week is quite stressful and completely threw me off my edge. This in fact caused me to get the lowest grade yet on my quiz, not a horrible grade but noticeable. This event was actually the first time I required an Uber and walking outside my living complex, and I am just happy it waited to rain the day after this incident. For My o...

  Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s blog post. Unfortunately not much new has come up surrounding the work of my internship. This week I have been studying for a Midterm and looking for possible internships in the future. For my internship, we have a research colloquium on the 17 th of November where our team will be presenting our research findings via zoom. However, it is unfortunately on a day I am unavailable for this event due to family things, but I will still be able to present non the less. I have a couple more slides I need to finish, and I will record my presentation before the actual event. Hopefully it will go as smoothly as if I was there. But like I said I have a couple more slides and it should go for approximately 10 minutes of simple slides that provides the information about the battle part of The Battle of Olustee. Although I am working on school stuff and internship stuff, something new that has been prevalent is the search for a new internship duri...

  Hello everyone, Patrick Callaghan here for another week of my internship and another blog along with it. I hope everyone is having great and successful week. Personally, I have finished two out three “midterm” assignments and begin looking to the end of course papers due. This week Dr. Gannon came back from her conference in the United Kingdom and has given me some interesting things to work on. This week I was asked how I may create a ten-minute presentation for The Battle of Olustee at a research seminar. Personally I have not seen many research seminars in person or via the internet, especially when it comes to history so I started looking for some that would inspire me and possibly spark some great ideas. Which it has and has not. Although these examples I watch are very descriptive and great to watch, they are all over an hour long. One thing I have learned is that in presentations the flow and rhythm is very important, and it changes with how long a presentation is, what ...

  Hello everyone, Patrick Callaghan here once again for another week of my internship and another blog post accompanying it. This week we unfortunately could not meet as a team due to Dr. Gannon’s international conference, all the best to her. This week was very similar to last week. With preparing for midterm tests, papers, essays, reading and research as well as the practice writing I have been doing. The beginning of this week was mostly focused on the above assignments and this end of week and weekend I will be working on my summary to make it as digestible and intriguing as possible. It has been recommended that a battle map that can be used as a visual representation of the failed operation by the Union forces and Maj. Gen. Gillmore. I need to communicate with my group members to discuss how we want to do this whether it be a “slide show” depicting the events or a video of an animated map with or without commentary over it. All in all a visual version of the written battle ...

  Hello everyone, Patrick Callaghan here again for another week of blog posts. Rounding out the approximate middle of the semester is week number 6. Unfortunately due to Dr. Gannon finishing some work for her upcoming conference we were unable to meet this week and discuss the current progress of our roles and with a project due for me this week I did not have much time to focus on the Olustee project. From my Timeline project however, I did learn and try some new things for it that I can possibly use in the future. This week I tried to do a little writing in the spare time I did have, and I think it is really useful. This week was mostly focused on my timeline project for my Ancient Near Eastern class. This projected required a timeline and an essay. Instead of making a Microsoft word document for the timeline I decided to use PowerPoint to make it more professional in appearance. In finishing the timeline with PowerPoint it has actually made me think about extending the knowled...