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lessons learned
Jan. 17th, 2019 08:46 pmMy first event was tonight! It was an evening reception and moderated discussion featuring Vali Nasr, Dean of Johns' Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former ambassador. Most of the planning for the event had been done beforehand, but I was helping carrying out day-of logistics, including coordinating the volunteer corps (of which I used to be a part!). Everything went smoothly and we had great attendance and my supervisor was happy at the end of the night, though I have learned the following:
1. Don't wear heels to these things. My feet are killing me. I got to sit down way more as a volunteer than in organizing this, especially as I was trying to take photos.
2. I am terrible at taking photos and my coworker's quick rundown on how to use that DSLR was...rudimentary at best. There are probably a few good/usable shots in there, but a lot of them just had terrible exposure because the lighting was off in the room and I didn't know how to properly adjust the camera in response.
3. Gotta take notes on the content of his discussion next time to better write follow-up newsletter blurbs and such! Now that I'm home, I've written down a few things I remember after my supervisor mentioned it to me halfway through the event...but next week I'll take better notes, and will be more focused since I won't be in charge of photography.
Home at 8:30pm and gotta be back in the office tomorrow by 9am to debrief/finish other work/join in a 9:30 meeting. It definitely is an experience, getting thrown into the deep end of ongoing stuff and just having to join in and help run things, but still feeling sort of new and clueless and like someone should be telling me what to do. No, that's my job now! Kind of.
1. Don't wear heels to these things. My feet are killing me. I got to sit down way more as a volunteer than in organizing this, especially as I was trying to take photos.
2. I am terrible at taking photos and my coworker's quick rundown on how to use that DSLR was...rudimentary at best. There are probably a few good/usable shots in there, but a lot of them just had terrible exposure because the lighting was off in the room and I didn't know how to properly adjust the camera in response.
3. Gotta take notes on the content of his discussion next time to better write follow-up newsletter blurbs and such! Now that I'm home, I've written down a few things I remember after my supervisor mentioned it to me halfway through the event...but next week I'll take better notes, and will be more focused since I won't be in charge of photography.
Home at 8:30pm and gotta be back in the office tomorrow by 9am to debrief/finish other work/join in a 9:30 meeting. It definitely is an experience, getting thrown into the deep end of ongoing stuff and just having to join in and help run things, but still feeling sort of new and clueless and like someone should be telling me what to do. No, that's my job now! Kind of.
