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My name is Jesse Cantrel, and I'm a history major, and I live in Rapid City.
I picked history specifically because it was offered in Rapid City.
It's been really nice, as far as, because it's smaller you get a chance to see people more often.
It's been, because it's small,
I have no problem finding people, getting a hold of people. I want to
work in a library as librarian. But I would like to focus more on
special libraries or historical libraries.
I am working at The Journey on an internship this semester.
A lot of it is getting things organized.
I'm really big into organization and so we've been doing a massive project as far as
getting the archival storage, new shelves put in, things rearranged.
I've been doing some
archiving of materials;
I've been indexing
different items and collections. We're going to be working on setting up
a collection so that I have that experience.
The best part of being involved in this internship is just being able to see
some of the items that you know aren't displayed in the museum
that are part of a rotating collection. Having an opportunity to work with
people who
have been doing this who are very knowledgeable and meeting people in the
community that I never had the opportunity to, has been really a
good experience. The knowledge
that comes from doing an internship or
working in your field
prior to graduating and you know you have a chance to integrate the skills
that you've learned from the textbooks from teachers from your peers and kind of
work with people who've been doing it
for years and years. I honestly think that all the degrees
should have an internship. Because i think there's so much that you don't...
you don't just get out of book learning. I think that there's a lot of things
that people miss by not having that practical experience.
i think that everybody should
should find something
that pertains to what they're studying to do an internship.
I think that
Black Hills State has offered
a lot of really positive
things for me. It's allowed me to
you know kind of
explore different...
different options that I had maybe not considered before.
I think that it has offered me the
potential to do great things.
And it has
transformed my life
by giving me the skills needed
to accomplish those goals.