My second mentee is Lindsey Bradley. Lindsey and Kate are both roommates so it has been really fun to see how close they are getting and how they are both adjusting to college. Lindsey is from Cleveland, Ohio and actually knows one of my friends in my sorority! Lindsey is majoring in Studio Art which is a very interesting major. She has always been good at art and has never really seen herself majoring in anything else. She did art all throughout high school and she was very good at it! I could relate to her on this because I did a lot of designing for my schools yearbook and we talked a lot about my theme and all the different techniques that I used.

Lindsey has been looking into what clubs she can get involved with and I told her that its never too late to join a club and even pointed out a few that I know of. Lindsey is looking into different art clubs to meet more people in her major. This past week I actually saw Lindsey and her friends at the Greek Meet and found out that they were interested in rushing! I told Lindsey that she can always ask me any questions she has about Greek Life and I can help her find out which sorority is right for her!

In high school, Lindsey was involved in “Take Action” which is an after school program where she helped kids with their homework. She also did a lot of volunteering in her community. Lindsey said that she wanted to join ACES because she wanted to keep up with volunteering in college and ACES had everything that she was interested in ranging from children to education. Lindsey was also concerned with meeting her service hours each semester and I told her that through my sorority I actually had a lot of opportunities for service hours that has helped me a lot!

After graduation, Lindsey doesn’t exactly know what she wants to do with her degree yet. She knows someone in her family that was an intern at a cool graphic design agency and she said that that has always sounded like something that she would be interested in! During her time here at Ohio State, Lindsey is working on being as outgoing as she can be and being more social.

I am looking forward to helping Lindsey find her passion here at Ohio State and can’t wait to see her transition at the end of the year!

My first mentee is Kate Dunne. Kate is from Cincinnati, Ohio and we went to high school only 2o minutes apart! Kate and I didn’t realize until we met up but I am really good friends with her cousin that went to my high school. Kate is majoring in Marketing and Logistics, I am thinking about changing my major to Business so second semester I can definitely help her out with some of her classes. Kate decided on her major because she participated in DECA in high school which lead her towards marketing. DECA is a program that encourages the development of business and leadership skills.  She actually decided to chose logistics while she attended an information session about it here on campus. She said that not a lot of people know about logistics and it’s actually a growing field.

Kate has already gotten involved on campus! She is a member of the Undergraduate Student Government and she is on the student affairs committee. This has helped her meet a ton of people and she even attended her first date party this past week! Kate is also in He for She which is a gender equality club on campus. Kate was also very involved in her high school. She was a student ambassador, in a student athletic leadership team, and she also participated in soccer, track, and basketball.

To help her continue her involvement at Ohio State, Kate wanted to participate in ACES. She really wanted to keep volunteering on campus and thought that ACES would be a perfect fit. Once she got accepted into the program she toured the dorm and fell in love even more. Kate is looking forward to meeting more friends through ACES and finding an organization she is passionate about. However, she is worried about meeting her service requirements each semester. I already told her that I have a few organizations and events that I get involved with to get my hours and that she can always come with me to these events.

After college, Kate doesn’t exactly know what she wants to do yet. I told her that thats completely ok! As a first semester freshman it may seem like you are running out of time to decide your life when in reality you have all the time in the world. She definitely knows that she wants to do something with business, perhaps even be a CEO of a marketing firm. She is considering going to grad school and it has always been a dream of hers to go to NYU for grad school.

After talking to Kate I am super excited to help her throughout the semester and I look forward to seeing all of her success!