Anonymous Interview 1

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Title

Anonymous Interview 1

Description

An Anonymous Interview

Creator

Solomon Balaam-Reed

Date

1/24/2018

Type

Interview

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1 HS: Center of the Creative Arts/Sorta-Loud/College Driven/Doesn't Know what percentage went to school
2 How you here about Montevallo: A lot of people from my school came here
3. Parents: First Generation College Student/Parents wanted her to go to a small school/Parents reacted favorably to Montevallo
4. Montevallo First Choice? First was MTSU (Middle Tennessee State University), but parents wanted her to go to a small school
5. What made you come to Montevallo?: The size of the school and the atmosphere
6. Fear about coming to school: Having to be on my own and make decisions for myself.
7. First Day on Campus: Pretty good, it was nervous at first but I met a lot of good people and it made the transition easier
8. How does it feel to live in Main: It's good, it's a really good community of girls
9. Are you greek?: Yes I'm Adi Phi
10: Why did you decide to go Greek?: In the beginning I did not want to go Greek, but after going to the events on campus and meeting a bunch of the girls I decided to push myself out of my comfort zone
Field Notes
Mnotes: This being my first interview my method was to originally ask easy and simple questions in the beginning. What surprised me about this method is my interviewee got really bored in the beginning and therefore in kind of threw the rest of the interview off It's game. Even though we eventually got to the more hard-hitting questions about life at Montevallo, she wasn't all that interested towards the end and that killed the interview on a sour note, hence why I only got about 10 questions.
TNotes: Why do I think the interview went the way it did? The interview was kind of sprung on her, because I wanted to get a couple of interviews under my belt. Even though I originally thought this would be a good idea, it didn't so as well as I originally hoped. Another reason why I didn't think the interview so as well as I originally hoped was because her best friend came in midway through the interview and she was more focused on talking to her friend.
PNotes: We did the interview in Farmer, so obviously there was sound the in building and that created a bit of a distraction. I was also eyeing Moes the entire tine because I wasn't able to grab any dinner. I was also dealing with a slight headache, so I was a little distracted in that sense as well.
SNotes: We started the interview talking about her high school days and hoe her parents wanted her to go to a small school. Once of the reasons why she didn't go to the first choice, which was MTSU. She is a first-generation college student. The main reason she decided to go to Montevallo was the size of the campus. Her big fears about her going to Montevallo was that she would finally be on her own and she would have to make decisions for herself. Her first day onS campus was spent meeting new friends and settling into the atmosphere. Her biggest decisions that she mad in college was to go Greek, she wanted to push herself out of her comfort zone which was the reason she decided to give it a shot.