Interview

I was fortunate enough to be able to interview Sue Stoltzfus who is a professor at Michigan State in the college of natural science. Before the interview, I could never have imagined how likable and down to earth a professor could be. While the majority of my questions focused on the writing that she performs in her job we also talked about other details of her job. Here is a summary of the interview:

Q: Whats your favorite part of your job?

A: Working with the students, everyone here is so unique and finding out about individual students and helping them adjust to life here in college is something I take great pride in.

Q: How much writing do you do in your job?

A: Its in short spurts. There is always email and lots of grading to do. In addition to that I write many letters of recruitment and posting items on D2L.

Q: How do you generally communicate with other people?

A: Normally it is E-Mail, because of the amount of people and their location this is the most efficient way to talk to many people as quickly as possible.

Q: What’s your job like on a day-to-day basis?

A: There is no such thing as an average day, there are always meetings, emails to answer to and  writing i need to catch up on in addition to class.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Currently I am focusing on data collection on SpartaNature students. The main focus points are on how they are adjusting to life at MSU and also how their GPA is compared to other students.

Q: What challenges are typical with your job?

A: In general it would be technology because of how much I rely on it. If the internet is down or my computer is out of commission it really slows everything down on me.

 There were more questions but I feel they wouldn't be relevant to this blog. Professor Stoltzfus was incredibly helpful and I am very happy that she took time out of her day for this interview.