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Year in Review
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G.O.A.L.S.
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- 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.
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- 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
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Artifacts
Sarah Druhan
Art Seminar
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
My First Week at OSU
The event that best describes my first week at OSU is the moment my mom and my brother left my dorm room and began walking back to their car. As they walked across the courtyard behind Baker, they turned and waved vaguely in the direction of my window. After I waved back and they made their way out of sight, I realized that I had literally no idea what to do with myself, and a sudden wave of uncertainty came over me. There was a lot of nervousness that came with that uncertainty, but over the course of the day I realized that there was a good deal of excitement too. While Ohio State was a huge campus and I felt like I had no structure and absolutely no idea how I was supposed to survive the transition from life at home to life in college, I was and am very excited for the newness of it all. The prospect of making new friends, establishing a new place for myself, and continuing to pursue my interests through Arts Scholars helped me to get through the very nerve-wracking first week and to look ahead to the future.
There were definitely many hardships that came along with my first week here. The first two days were the most overwhelming; I had to adapt to an entirely new schedule, and I found that I missed my family and especially my old friends as I began associating with an entirely new group of people. However, I learned over the course of the first week to stop focusing on the old and start focusing on the new. While it is still slightly overwhelming to be in such a new environment, every day so far has gotten better and better, and I know it is only a matter of time before enough days pass to where I am completely comfortable in my new environment, and absolutely ready to take on the rest of college and the new experiences it will bring me.
About Me
Hi! My name is Sarah Druhan, and I’m a first year student at the Ohio State University. I am currently an English major and also considering pursuing an English and Communications double major, as well as possibly a minor in Film Studies. The two fields of art that I most enjoy are Theater and the performing arts as well as Creative Writing, which is why I am interested in both the organization that produces Mosaic Magazine (a publication that promotes student-produced art and literature here on campus) as well as the EUGO, or English Undergraduate Organization. I hope to be an editor at a publishing house or freelance writer after college, but those are my dream jobs and I’m focusing on just getting through college for now and hopefully getting a more concrete sense of what I want to do. My main goal for this next year of college is to improve my writing skills and become more confident in my writing, through both the essays I’ll be writing for class as well as creative stories. I’m looking forward to getting to know everyone in my Arts Scholars program and also to getting more involved on campus and meeting other people with my same interests.