…And that project is being an ENR Mentor!
As an ENR Mentor, I hope to grow my interpersonal skills, to welcome new students to the ENR program, gain leadership experience, connect with new people, and to learn more about sustainable living. As a mentor, I hope to help engage the first year students, as well as benefit from their class theme. I hope to accomplish these through the weekly/biweekly meetings of ENR, where I can see my saplings face to face, as well as through emails and text correspondence. These emails will contain helpful reminders and tips for the stressful times in the first year of college, like midterms and finals. Living in Morrill Tower, I am not more than a few flights of stairs from the majority of the saplings, which should make connecting and meeting with them easier for both of us! I also plan on organizing events as a saplings group, separate from ENR, such as trips to the OAC. The majority of my saplings are engineering majors, and as an engineering major myself, I hope to help guide the first years through the confusing and difficult first year in the OSU College of Engineering. I will continue to make myself available for questions and advice on how to navigate coursework in any of the OSU colleges.
Beyond ENR, I hope to help my saplings mature as students and encourage them to learn about themselves through service. I hope to aid in instilling in them the values of the ENR Scholars Program, and to organize events that will become lifelong memories.