The interview went well. We had a pleasant conversation and the interviewee was easy to talk to. In hindsight, however, it could have been better. For one thing, we had not received previous confirmation for the videotaping, so we could not take a video. Another mistake was that we blazed through the list of questions and did not ask any follow up questions until we got almost all the way through the list, making it difficult to carry on with the interview past the fifteen minute mark. However, we did manage to make it a full hour interview using follow up questions and in the end we got some interesting information from our interviewee. In the future I would come prepared with more questions and have immediately responded with a follow up question in case of an interesting point the interviewee makes but does not elaborate on. There were many cases in the interview where the interviewee mentioned a significant part of her life and did not elaborate on it and instead of asking a follow up question, we overlooked it. Despite these errors, we were able to obtain interesting information from her. For example we found out why she became a doctoral student and why goals are such an important thing to her.
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