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Year in Review
[ “Year in Review” is where you should reflect on the past year and show how you have evolved as a person and as a student. You may want to focus on your growth in a particular area (as a leader, scholar, researcher, etc.) or you may want to talk about your overall experience over the past year. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
G.O.A.L.S.
[ “G.O.A.L.S.” is a place where students write about how their planned, current, and future activities may fit into the Honors & Scholars G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.
Global Awareness: Students cultivate and develop their appreciation for diversity and each individual’s unique differences. For example, consider course work, study abroad, involvement in cultural organizations or activities, etc .
Original Inquiry: Honors & Scholars students understand the research process by engaging in experiences ranging from in-class scholarly endeavors to creative inquiry projects to independent experiences with top researchers across campus and in the global community. For example, consider research, creative productions or performances, advanced course work, etc.
Academic Enrichment: Honors & Scholars students pursue academic excellence through rigorous curricular experiences beyond the university norm both in and out of the classroom.
Leadership Development: Honors & Scholars students develop leadership skills that can be demonstrated in the classroom, in the community, in their co-curricular activities, and in their future roles in society.
Service Engagement: Honors & Scholars students commit to service to the community.]
Career
[“Career” is where you can collect information about your experiences and skills that will apply to your future career. Like your resume, this is information that will evolve over time and should be continually updated. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
Artifacts
[Artifacts are the items you consider to be representative of your academic interests and achievements. For each entry, include both an artifact and a detailed annotation. An annotation is a reflective description of the artifact that attempts to communicate its significance. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
About Me
Abby Bouton is a Visual Communication Design major as OSU. Throughout her high school career, she participated in the girls tennis team, key club, art club and theatre.
Abby has always been passionate about how art can communicate ideas to the world. Throughout her middle school and early high school years, she took photographs for people, and in her later high school career, she took up painting. Over the past few years, she has began to see the true impact that art makes in the world. In her art classes, people began to express their political feelings and thoughts into their projects. On social media, she saw communities of people forming. YouTube has become one of the main ways that minority youths can go to find others like them. Abby has witnessed this first hand through the LGBT community. Ideas are being spread through a multitude of different art forms on every social media platform. Without media design, social media wouldn’t exist. The ability to connect to others around you would be incredibly harder. Even things that people don’t normally think about, like billboards and ads on TV communicate thoughts and ideas to the world. Because people are exposed to these platforms of information so often, they influence us and how we think. Design is literally changing the world. Even medical fields wouldn’t be able to advance without design. Because of the growing impact that technology has on our lives, now is the perfect time to become a part of this movement and Abby’s goal is to do so with her major.