Ryan Manley's 1102 Blog

      I remember checking D2L on the morning of February 16. Bad storms were finishing up, and I could see the rain against the glass of my bedroom window. Our class was supposed to be meeting at the Marietta Museum of History and I was just making sure that we were still meeting- and we were. I packed up my laptop bag, walked outside with my umbrella, and placed my laptop into the trunk of my car, on the way to Marietta Square. I circled the square, looking for the entrance to the museum and finding a parking spot nearby. I then stepped out of the car, a puddle on the concrete, feeling the water under my shoes and then I walked into the museum. I went into the museum and heard Amy, the museum curator, ask me “Are you here for the KSU project?” which I responded yes, and she told me where the group was meeting. I took a seat, with my mask on, feeling the fabric against my face, as Amy started telling us about the project.  She told us how she really apprec...

  I learned a lot in this course, not just about Latinx communities but about research in general. A better way of describing my experience of taking this course would be that it opened my mind. I have not taken a course like this and it really opened my eyes up to the research process, particularly for museum exhibits and what happens behind the scenes to put one together. Something I found unique about this class and the project in general, is that we started with questions about Latinx communities, but the primary goal of the class was not necessarily to answer those questions specifically. Our group strived to answer some of those questions, but because of limited historical research on some of these topics, we were allowed to readjust our questions as we researched.      Something else that was encouraged in this project was actually to find as much information about our research topic as possible. A lot of times, while writing essays in the past, I actually ha...