VLP Week 7 (2/27/2026).

         Hello everyone, this is now week 7 of my internship with the University of Central Florida’s Veterans Legacy Program. I remember a couple of weeks ago I was talking about how frighteningly quick the passage of time could be, that was at the start of February and that saying still holds true now. At the time of writing this it is the second to last day of February and midterms and spring break are only a few short weeks away, it has been nothing less than astounding how quickly this semester and internship have flown by.


I apologize for talking so long about how quickly this year has gone by and not on what I’ve done this week with the VLP but to tell the truth this has been a fairly uneventful week. This week's meeting largely had the team go over and discuss the notes and what happened at the teacher conference last Wednesday, additionally the idea was brought up that interns may go to the house of the spouse of a veteran to scan some documents there but that still needs to be arranged. But in terms of what I have done VLP wise I have not done anything new that I haven’t been doing for the past couple of weeks, I worked on metadata and while we still have not heard back from the VLM to approve us to continuing uploads of biographies we are still going ahead on creating pdfs and I plan on making more over the weekend.

So this week hasn’t been the most exciting but perhaps that is a good thing because with midterms coming up I expect to be very busy in the upcoming days so I should probably be thankful to have had a relatively calm week. I apologize to everyone for cutting this week's post a little short but truth be told I don’t have much more to say regarding this week. I plan on asking around the team to see if they have any additional work for me to do, so hopefully the weeks in the future I will be a little more busy.


But until then that’s all that I have for this week so I hope that all of you have a good weekend and I will see you next Friday.

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