{"id":78,"date":"2025-09-04T00:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/?p=78"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:29:20","slug":"beginning-of-the-year-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of the Year Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>With a year of Vivero experience under your belts, what advice do you have for new Fellows about the idea that this job involves learning how to do your job on the fly?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In digital humanities work, you should never be afraid to ask for help and not know things. It&#8217;s always ok to walk a student through your process of finding information, call in another fellow on shift, or make a referral to another staff person at the college. We&#8217;re always learning, and the field is always evolving in a way that makes it nigh impossible to know everything that&#8217;s going to come flying at you. The important thing is knowing how to find out information once you realize you don&#8217;t know it, and that is often the most valuable skill you can impart to your peers during peer mentoring as well. Give a man a fish, and he will be fed for a day, teach a man to fish and he will be fed all his life or something like that. <br><br>Likewise, because you&#8217;re learning all the time, you have to find strategies to retain the information that&#8217;s being thrown at you, and pass it on to anyone that comes after you. This is where documentation comes in. This can look like <a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.vivero.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?title=Project_Documentation\">formal documentation<\/a>, which you&#8217;ll learn how to make as part of the Vivello program, but it can also look like an informal work log and journal where you make note of what you did and why you did it that way. Keep a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonplace_book\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonplace_book\">commonplace journal<\/a> if you want! Find what works for you, and never let perfection get in the way of creating something good. <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In digital humanities work, you should never be afraid to ask for help and not know things. It&#8217;s always ok to walk a student through your process of finding information, call in another fellow on shift, or make a referral to another staff person at the college. We&#8217;re always learning, and the field is always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgansmith.sites.grinnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}