[ “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.
[ “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 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.
- 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.]
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 includes both a description of the artifact and a reflection on why it is important to you, what you learned, and what it means for your next steps. 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.]
About Me
Hi! My name is Angela Falconi, and I am a first-year pre-med student at The Ohio State University pursuing a major in public health. Additionally, I am planning on specializing in environmental public health and minoring in Spanish and Korean. I am also a student of the Health Sciences Scholars Program.
I am from Brunswick, Ohio, and I graduated from Padua Franciscan High School in Parma, Ohio as a MedTrack student and the valedictorian of the class of 2020. MedTrack is a Padua academic, extracurricular, and career-focused program for students interested in healthcare. As a MedTrack student, I was able to shadow physicians for sixty hours as a high school student, I worked as the MedTrack Student coordinator, assisting the program director, and I won “Best Research Paper,” for my paper on dermatology. I then applied the skills that I had learned in MedTrack to a paid-internship position at the Cleveland Clinic in the Applied Medicine Summer Science Internship where I worked in the cardiovascular surgery and ambulatory nursing departments for two consecutive summers.
As a pre-med student at The Ohio State University, majoring in public health, I would like to learn more about medicine through a wider lens as I earn my bachelor’s degree. Beyond that, I hope to earn a Masters in Public Health (MPH) as well as go on to medical school in order to become a physician. In the future, I would like to not just help and assist patients, but make an impact by improving the healthcare system in area of health policy.
As a student pursuing a minor in Spanish, I hope to build on my previous knowledge in the Spanish language in order to become fluent. I am also fascinated by Korean culture, and I would like to formally learn the language as a continuation of the self-study I have done of Korean.
In terms of campus involvement, I am involved in the Pilipino Student Association (PSA), an organization which celebrates and fosters Filipinx and Filipinx-American heritage, and has helped me in connecting with my culture as a Filipina woman.
Outside of school, I am very passionate about music, and I have played the piano for almost 16 years, the guitar for 8 years, and I have been singing for as long as I can remember. I serve my home parish, St. Ambrose, as a cantor, where I volunteer my time to help lead the congregation in song.
My E-portfolio acts as a display of my experiences, achievements, and wishes in terms of my academics, extracurriculars, professional involvements, as well as personal interests as well. Through all of my experiences, I hope to demonstrate not only my academic and professional side, but who I am, personally, as well.