Summary

I am very glad that I chose to do an Internship before I graduated, especially this particular one through the Neville Public Museum. Everyone there was very friendly and you can tell by working with them they they love what they do. It was nice to get out of the classroom for a little bit and engage in some more intense historical research and take the information I reseach and actually do something with it instead of just writing another paper.

As far as my Internship Essay I wrote about Quiren Groessl, it was very rewarding. When I think of what historical research should be, I think of what I did to write the bio on Quiren Groessl. I contacted his grandchildren, as well as people who knew him many years ago. I actually felt liking I was communicating with this man the entire time I researched him, and I think its that feeling which makes most of us want to study history.

It was rewarding to actually put some of the resarch skills I have learned over the last four years top work and even learn some new methods. I was lucky that I was immersed into WWI history as soon as I started because with my time in the Marines, I already had a limited history of that period and my knowledge of ballistics was helpful when it came to artifacts identification. I am seriously considering remaining a volunteer there simply because I enjoyed it so much.