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Career and Professional Goals

Coming into my second year of college, I had two main goals in mind: maintain average grades of B or higher, and obtain an internship for the coming summer. Internships have been important for me since I applied to come to the Ohio State University and I started applying for several last spring. Many of the positions I wanted I was denied from, and in asking why I was told I simply did not have enough business courses under my belt yet and needed to learn a bit more before I could be hired. With this in mind, I enrolled in many more business core classes and started applying again in the early fall. After a difficult search process and several interviews later, I am happy to say that I have accepted an offer from Mettler-Toledo in their Quality team. It is because of the information I’ve learned from my business classes and the leadership roles that I’ve held in Mount that I am so excited and honored to be working there this summer.

My other goal was to have and keep good grades, which again, has always been very important for me. I have always valued my grades in classes, even in elementary school. There was something so rewarding in getting to tell my parents that I did well on all of the assignments that I lived for. After coming to college and still finding it relatively easy to keep good grades, I found myself beginning to struggle in some of the notoriously hard business classes like economy and accounting. After getting through these tough courses and my grades not being what they could be, it motivated me to put in the extra work that was needed to get me over the edge. Accounting 1 was difficult for me because of the wide scope of topics and so many new concepts that I’d never heard of, and I wasn’t really used to a class that involved. This semester, as I’m taking Accounting 2, I’ve made sure to take extra time to really dive in and practice the many concepts. I’m proud of what I’ve been able to take from my weaker class performances and put that work into my goal of keeping a B+ average.

Second-Year Retreat

This past month, I had the absolute privilege to go on a retreat with my fellow second-year Mount Scholars. We met in the middle of a pandemic over Zoom, and even though most of us lived together, I still wasn’t close to many of the other Mounties. We met in small groups throughout the year and worked on countless projects together, but we simply weren’t allowed to gather and explore other friendships. This semester, Covid numbers dropped, and I am so blessed to say that we all got to share a weekend together at Camp Akita.

This retreat meant a great deal to me, starting with the fact that we had to, unfortunately, cancel our first-year retreat, both of which are Mount traditions. After so many traditions were postponed for my class, it was so refreshing to get to spend time with them doing what other Mount classes have done for years. It also meant the world to me that everyone on this trip was willing to do the most, whether it be getting vulnerable in boundary-breaking activities or working tirelessly on the service projects, my class put their all into everything that we did.

Mount has given me a lot, but the connections and friendships I’ve made because of this program are by far the best. I’ve made lifelong friends here, and getting to know the others on this trip showed me just how similar a lot of us are; it showed me how many connections I’d wished I’d pursued sooner. My weekend at Camp Akita is something I know that I’ll remember and cherish forever.

Team Lead Experience

This semester, I have had the honor of working as a team lead for Mount’s Legacy Week. This project is one held dear to the Mount community, as it is an annual effort to serve the people of Columbus. I was thrilled to find out that I had been picked to be one of the leads for Team Poverty; I was put in charge of setting up times as well as leading the meetings. My position was perfectly suited for me because it contained many of the skills I would need for HR in the future, such as finding ways to boost team morale and becoming more proficient with technology.

Working with a team to do something for the greater good of the city we live in reminded me why I wanted to study HR in the first place: to communicate with and encourage others so that the team can succeed in every way possible. Even through the COVID-19 pandemic, we still found ways to engage the team and get our tasks done.

Even though we are still hard at work to bring this project to fruition, this experience is something that I value highly. The dates of the projects are fast approaching, and I as well as my team will be giving these final days our all!

My Trip to Scotland

The picture provided shows me alongside one of my best friends, as well as three other girls that would become a huge part of my life. The picture was taken in the summer of 2019 at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. I traveled with my school through both Scotland and Ireland for a week and a half with the intention of learning about other cultures.

I believe that over the course of the trip, I learned not only to accept and value cultures that I may not be familiar with but perhaps, even more, I learned how to meet and value people and who they are individually. I learned how to communicate and how to understand where others are coming from. Even from the beginning, when I was asked to share a room with someone I’d never met before, we had to talk out what we were and weren’t comfortable with while rooming together. Some more prominent examples would be when I had the incredible opportunity to speak with some of the native tour guides of the areas we went to, such as Joe, who was raised in Belfast when the IRA was waging war. He gave me a lot of insight on forgiveness and helping others through his stories, and overall he made me want to be an advocate for positive change and resolution.

This experience really made me aware that I loved to communicate with others and develop my conflict-resolution skills, which led me to apply here to the Ohio State University to major in Business and Human Resources. It also opened my eyes to the many different lives that people have all over the world, and it made me want to learn so much more about unfamiliar cultures so that I could better respect and appreciate the circumstances that make people who they are. The trip really emphasized for me one of the core foundations of Mount, which is to value individuals, and it got me ready to start thinking from a lens that focuses on how individuality really can make us all stronger.

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 guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

G.O.A.L.S.

In my remaining years here at Ohio State, I have so many goals that I would love to accomplish. I am very excited to study abroad sometime in the near future, whether that be during the summer or an upcoming semester. In the times that I have traveled with my school before, I have learned so much about the culture and lifestyles of the people that I met along the way, and luckily, Fisher offers many study abroad programs that will give me the chance to expand on these memories.

I would also list getting an internship during the summer of 2022 as an upcoming goal; I am very excited to get out into the workforce and have some first-hand experience in the world of business. I have spent a lot of time getting into my coursework and I believe that I am ready to step out and apply what I’ve learned to some real-world scenarios.

Among one of the events I am most thrilled to achieve is my Year of Service project that I am completing this school year with the Columbus Dream Center and Distributed Proofreaders. The Year of Service is a highly recognized part of the second-year Mount experience and I am elated to get to put my all into two organizations that I identify with and really make a difference in my community.