Written 3/31/2026, Published 4/5/2026
Whoof. Busy month! A little under two weeks ago now, I had the wonderful opportunity to present a student lightning talk at the Iowa State University Digital Symposium, alongside a group of other grinnellian students and faculty. As I spoke about in my last blog post, most of my February and beginning of March were a lead up to this event and consisted of a lot of writing for my script, prepping slides, deciding how I wanted to say what I wanted to say, and so forth. The talk was incredibly fun, went well, and I was also very excited to listen to the other presenters, both students and faculty alike. Learning what digital humanities professionals in Iowa are doing in the field was incredibly informative and helpful towards understanding what digital humanities work looks like outside of college.
After finishing the talk, I spent the rest of March working on developing Vivero into my resume as part of my professional development. This training consisted of; first, identifying and clarifying the specific jobs I’ve done in my time with Vivero; second, identifying the specific skills that these jobs have required and cultivated; and lastly, sketching up both a couple of bullet points and a skills map to demonstrate where I’ve developed. It was an incredibly helpful activity in terms of decided what to focus in on when I’m including Vivero in my resume, and how to be more precise in describing the actual work I’ve done in the position. I especially found mapping out the skills to be engaging, as I was able to think about where my skills overlap and have bolstered each other’s growth. I’m thinking now that I ought to do this kind of activity with all my previous/current jobs!