So the semester has come to an end, this time next week I will be the proud owner of a Bachelors degree in Anthropology. Yay me! Two months from now, I will probably be downing every morsel of bbq and biscuits and gravy before I begin the next chapter of my life by moving to South Korea to chase a boy band… ahem I mean teach English.

But before that, I wanted to this blog post as a bit of a reflection on this project and talk about my last little edits to it before I take the plunge and turn it in, thus freeing me to do my other projects (you know, the ones that I don’t have to do well on to graduate college).

So, if you can’t tell from my previous posts, I was not entirely keen on this project. I find the Civil War to be painfully boring (really American history in general) and I am not particularly adept with technology (though once I do finally get it, I usually do pretty well with it, it just takes a while). On top of that, this was hands down the MOST frustrating project I have ever had to do, mostly because I have never encountered the unique issue of “I can’t find hardly any information, and yet I can’t change the topic either”. So that was fun, though in hindsight, it’s probably something that I should experience in the rather closed environment of school before I go out into the real world.

Now that I am pretty much done, I am oddly satisfied with it. It’s not as nice as that one lady’s in class, the one who has a picture of her soldier, but I actually rather wish it was. I’m jealous that her soldier left behind a nice trail for her to follow, where mine didn’t leave behind hardly anything. But, still yet, I’m pleased with how it turned out. There are still some weird little things on the site that I couldn’t figure out (like how to rotate the signature pictures) but it still looks kind of nice. I especially like the Battle of Chancellorsville page, It almost looks professional.

All in all, while I am extremely glad that this is finished, I am still rather grateful for the few lessons I learned while doing this project. I am also happy that, even if he was a pretty boring guy, I was able to help tell Adam Meyer’s story, one that might have been completely forgotten otherwise.