Evitt Nashed
February 26th, 2024
The interviews we had to give as a group were based on freshman athletes that go to SIUE and the main question our group had was if written notetaking or electronic notetaking is better. We had a hypothesis of digital notetaking being the higher outcome. Our group had a feeling that digital notes would be the most used for athletes since it’s the easiest way to access notes. I decided to give out my interview through Snapchat because the person I was interviewing was pretty busy with their sport. I decided to interview Cullen, a freshman track athlete, through Snapchat since I’ve known him for a while and know his background. I asked him a series of questions and had him give me his response. The questions the group made were very detailed to get a clear response. He talked about how student-athletes would more likely use digital notes because it can be the fastest and most reliable way to access notes. In his interview, he also talked about how SIUE can offer nice resources to students if they are struggling with classes. He mentioned study groups as an option to help with their studies and to set strict time on just studying. I felt very comfortable interviewing him and sending him the questions because he’s a fellow friend from my CODES class. The experience of interviewing Cullen was pretty good and easy since it was through Snapchat and he answered all the questions. It was complicated transcribing his response since Cullen and his roommate couldn’t take it seriously, which made Cullen lose focus. Cullen did get all the questions answered successfully though.
To conclude, I felt as if I could’ve interviewed Cullen in a better way. I feel like in-person would have been a better option because then his roommate wouldn’t be distracting him. Other than that, I feel like this interview went successfully.