
• What is your current major/minor?
I’m an Experience Architecture major with minors in Museum Studies, Graphic Design, and Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities.
• How did you find Digital Studies?
I found Digital Studies in my search for a study abroad program that aligned with my interests!
• What do you like most about Digital Studies?
I’m very interested in learning about ways to combine technology and experience design with my passion for preserving access to history and culture!
• How is Digital Studies enriching your academic experience?
Taking the Digital Culture in London and Scotland study abroad trip had a huge impact on my college experience. It introduced me to the important digital humanities work being done by professionals in cultural institutions across the UK, including archivists, curators, librarians, conservators, photographers and digitization experts, researchers, and historians.
• What have you learned so far that you didn’t expect about Digital Studies?
Until taking Digital Studies courses on my study abroad trip, I didn’t realize just how much historic cultural institutions like archives and museums rely on decisions about digital systems.
• What advice might you have for other students as it relates to Digital Studies?
MSU is so large that there really are niches for everyone. Digital Studies just might be the place full of other people who share your unlikely combination of interests!