Month: September 2019

IA mini-involvement fair

IA mini-involvement fair (campus)

Wednesday, September 11, 2019 from 6:00-7:00 pm

Lawn between Smith-Steeb and Park-Stradley

Today I attended the IA mini-involvement fair conveniently located just outside my dorm with my roommate to see a bit more as to what there is to get involved in on campus. There were about 15-20 clubs and organizations on campus that attended, and it was nice to get a more intimate and less intimidating opportunity to learn a bit more about options to get involved. The campus is extremely large, and the day of the Involvement Fair was so crazy I did not have a chance to see any of the booths I saw today that first week of school. It was great to learn about clubs I may be interested in that I would never have known existed if I did not attend this event! I think this event relates to IA in a lot of ways; a majority of the clubs you saw there had aspects or were based off of major topics we discuss and learn about in IA. Exploring political views, diversity and multicultural organizations, and learning about each other as people maybe more scientifically like in the Anthropology Public Outreach Club (which I put my name down for). I didn’t have any questions that members of the group or organization couldn’t answer, I got all the information flyers and signed up for a couple emails to see if I can fit anything into my schedule. The event further sparked my interest in Anthropology specifically, which I had been sort of hoping to learn more about what it was about just from hearing the guest speaker at the last IA meeting as well as interests sprouting in my Psychology class I’m taking. I think the event intersected somewhat with my academic goals, it encouraged me to explore my interests a bit more, but personally it definitely hit home. The Buckeyethon was calling me significantly, I was very excited to learn more and have the opportunity to get involved with things like that on campus while here at OSU. I was moved by how much OSU brings in every year and would love if I could be apart of something so much bigger than myself like that, I’ve always had an interest in helping people and doing all I can, especially when it comes to kids! Overall I’m very glad I went and got to see more of OSU!

Social Event

IA + PSL + ACES + HSS Cookout (Social)
Thursday, August 29th from 6:00-8:00 PM
Park-Stradley Lawn/Smith-Steeb Lawn
     Attending this event with so many other students from a handful of different scholars program was a great way to learn more about other programs as well as further connect with people from my own program! It did open my eyes to what different scholars programs do with their participants, how they are set up compared to IA as well as how they interact with each other and their leaders. It changed some of my beliefs as to what I thought other scholars programs were all about, for example I believed the Health and Science Scholars (HSS) were probably all on the pre-med track and heavily focused on the science aspect of academics. However, after further discussing with others in the program, I learned they actually place a lot of emphasis on the social aspect of healthcare, and dive deeper into what healthcare means to different people. Like International Affairs, they also provide resources to connect with basically anyone on campus, discuss research opportunities, and even discuss study abroad options for their students. I believe this event relates to the topic of International Affairs through the people. The event gave me the opportunity to learn more about other people’s backgrounds and how they ended up where they are now. Academically I got to see what kinds of classes other people around me are taking and how it’s going and hear about different plans at OSU, but I think this event was most beneficial personally for me. Just talking to my peers and connecting to other people with similar work ethic or interests made OSU feel a bit more like home. The event sort of ties into what we talk about in my survey class. It is a psychology survey and it’s all about interaction with others and attending events, utilizing available resources and expanding your world on campus and I think that is was this event did for me. After attending my only questions would be for other students and perspectives on their scholars programs and maybe some of the benefits they use within the programs to move forward in school.