The Health Science Scholars Seminar class is designed to relate the health sciences with different aspects of life, especially the life of a college student like maintaining a healthy lifestyle, finding out a health related major that is best related to an individual, and using resources to help the student out as they navigate through college.
One of the first assignments involved dealing with stress. As a college student, stress is something that we will deal with A LOT. This assignment helped students identify whether they had positive or negative stress and how to cope with it. The next assignments dealt with health related majors and careers and specifically which ones would be the best fit for you. This involved a lot of exploring and finding out what you liked in a career. In the end, the amount that you make doesn’t matter but the joyfulness that you feel while doing the job. 
Because of the assignments that I did in the earlier sections of the course, I do have a clearer understanding of my major and secondary path of study. My major now is biochemistry but that will likely change because I as a change as an individual, some of the things that interest me now may not interest me in the future. But I understand what having a biochemistry as a major is all about and the careers that are associated with it. If biochemistry doesn’t interest me, my secondary plan is to major in medical lab sciences and pursue another job in the health field. I learned more about this major and more through the Majors Exploration Fair and it sparked my interest on health related careers.
OSU has many resources when it comes to finding a major that would suit a future career choice. During the Major’s Exploration Fair, I talked to a person at the University Exploration group if I was confused about the major that I had chosen. They talked to me about the different classes that I could take to explore different majors and to look online at all the 200+ majors that OSU has to offer. I can also go online to find out the careers that are usually associated with those specific majors and see if they interest me.
One of the hardest things to do as a college student is balancing your life and making sure everything is getting done. It seems almost impossible to maintain a great academic, extracurricular, and social life while being healthy. But this can be achievable. My goal is of course to make the best grades that I can but to not overwhelm myself at the same time. I will give myself a time limit to get as much work done as I possibly can. Then I’ll go out, maybe to enjoy the scene outside, hang out with a friend, or just chill. To maintain my extracurricular activities, I won’t join too many of them. I choose at most 5 that are important to me and and ones that I will be able to make time for. To maintain a healthy lifestyle, I’ll try to incorporate more fruits and veggies in my diet and walk instead of taking the bus. Even though these are small steps, they can lead to bigger steps in the future. Essentially, I’m trying to do things that I know I can stay committed to and so that I don’t burden myself with too many things.
My HSS peer mentor, Riley, has honestly been a blessing to me. I can ask him anything because he basically went through the same situations that I am in now. He always looks out for me and gives great advice. That’s basically how I feel every time I meet someone who is older than me, whether they are an upperclassmen, faculty member, T.A. etc. They want to set students on the right path because they know that the transition from being a senior in high school to a freshman is college is rough. I know that if I’m confused about something, I can always ask someone for help because they have more knowledge in the situation than I do. That’s what’s great about OSU, because there are so many people willing to help.
You can always learn something new everyday, whether you are a baby that came out of your mother’s womb or someone who is 99. I think that I still have a lot of learning to do and that humbles me as a person. Next semester, I want to get more involved, especially in the health related field. I want to help organize food drives and highway cleans up, and just a lot of service activities. I want to balance my social life and find friends that will be positive influences on me instead of negative ones. I also want to stop procrastinating and doing my assignments in a timely manner. In my future years at OSU, I want to be a hardworking, determined, and happy woman. I know that as the years go by I going to have at least 50 breakdowns, 100 all nighters, and times where I’m just confused at the situation that I’m in. But as long as I never give up and that I essentially enjoy what I do, then I know that I will be fine.
