Second Semester Interview with My Mentees

I had the opportunity to sit down with my mentees Lindsey Bradley and Kate Dunne and talk about how they has been doing so far second semester! After first semester, students usually get the hang of things and find out how they work the best so Lindsey and I talked about how she is pretty comfortable with studying for her classes and finding ways to not procrastinate! Lindsey is a Studio Art major and I asked her how she manages her time with all of those artistic assignments. She told me she really tries to think ahead and plan her wording according to her schedule because if she plans it out, she’ll be less likely to be stressed about all of the assignments. Kate is a marketing major and is still trying to figure out how to balance her schoolwork with everything else she is involved in. She definitely has to prioritize what she has to get done when it comes to clubs and academics but she almost always will prioritize her academics and take a step back from the clubs that she is involved in.

Each semester everyone has that one class that is way more difficult than all the others. Kate is a business major so she is mainly in GE’s as well as a few business core classes. Her most difficult class this semester is CSE because the class is structured really ridiculously and the TA’s aren’t really helpful at all. We could relate on this a lot because I am also in CSE and am struggling a little bit as well. Lindsey’s most difficult class was actually one of her GE’s. He hardest class is Intro to African Literature because she has never been particularly good at english and she sometimes struggles to put her thoughts into words. But she had a positive attitude about it and said she was looking forward to the challenge!

We then got to talking about how their first semester in ACES went and they both agreed that they were glad they joined. They both emphasized how much it opened them up to new service opportunities. They were both very please with how easy Pete made it to reach the required 20 hours.

After first semester both Kate and Lindsey are still in their same major as first semester. We had previously discussed their career goals, which we all remembered each others goals during the spring mentorship retreat. Both of their career goals hadn’t changed much. Kate is still very much enjoying marketing and the business school and still wishes to be a CEO of a company. Lindsey at first just knew she possibly wanted to do something with graphic design but she after first semester she realized she has become more confident in her plan because of how interesting her art classes are and how driven she is in them.

My favorite part of first semester was meeting a bunch of new friends and adjusting to life on my own and I wanted to know what their favorite memory was too! Lindsey started off by saying that she knows how corny this sounds but her favorite memory was becoming so close with Kate as her roommate. They are both in ACES and do a lot together and tell each other everything and she’s really thankful to have found that. Kate also said that she is super thankful for Lindsey and she really enjoyed going to the welcome week concert together and seeing Miguel.

I had a really good time catching up with Kate and Lindsey and even got to chat with Lindsey about the sorority she just joined and how she is adjusting! We brainstormed some fun places that we could go for our second explore Columbus which I am very excited to go on!