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Month: August 2018
Year in Review
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G.O.A.L.S.
Academics have always been important to me, and Ohio State offers countless opportunities to enrich them. When I heard about the Engineering Expo put on by ECS held at the Union, I was at first excited, and then almost immediately my hopes were crushed when I heard that first year students rarely ever got an interview or a position. However, just to see what the event was like, I printed a few resumes, dressed up, and walked into the great hall where it was being held. I was intimidated at first, as there were so many people and everyone seemed confident and collected. I meandered around at first, not sure if I was even going to spend my time talking to people that weren’t interested in me, but when I saw a company that caught my eye, I nervously walked up and introduced myself. Everything after that was a blur, but I came out of the conversation with an interview and smile on my face. When the interview day came up, the same thing happened, I was once again very nervous but came out with a smile on my face. Hopefully, I landed a job or at least future consideration so I can get real field experience and engage in cirricular experiences out of the classroom. In the end, even if I get rejected, I’ve learned how to be a better interviewee which is an extremely important skill to have. Overall, I’m happy I decided to push past the nerves and out of my comfort zone, as it allowed me to enrich my academic experience beyond most other Freshman.
Career
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Artifacts
Ever since I learned how to bike when I was younger, I’ve enjoyed spending time going from place to place on my bike. I am lucky to have always had a relaxing trail to bike on, as both my hometown of Toledo and in Columbus there are excellent trails next to my place of residence, and even luckier to have a great best friend from back home who gifted me the beautiful and high quality hybrid trek bike seen in the picture. Originally, I loved biking because it gave me freedom to go to places too far to walk, but over the years it has transitioned into something much more personal. For reference, while I greatly enjoy biking with friends and in groups, most of my time is spent biking alone because I generally start before the crack of dawn and few people want to wake up early and push through the bitter cold that has begun to creep into Columbus. While on the surface biking in the darkness and cold without a soul in sight sounds unenjoyable, I have grown to appreciate it much more than I thought I would. Due to the incredible amount of people that go to Ohio State and my living situation in a quad, I rarely ever get time to be alone and gather my thoughts. Therefore, biking has become my outlet and therapist as I get to be alone with my thoughts in the crispness of nature before anyone has disturbed its morning beauty. With my sight limited to the cone of light directly in front of me, my hearing limited by the wind blowing past my face, my sense of smell, taste, and touch eliminated almost completely by the bitter cold, all I need to think about is staying on my bike and anything that is on my mind. These morning sessions have increased my mindfulness and gives me time to improve myself through introspection. In my opinion, the most important thing that biking has taught me is that while being social is great, time spent alone planning for the future and deciphering the past is just as important for my mental health.
About Me
Hi, I ‘m Freeman and I am an undergraduate Freshman at OSU pursuing a major in civil engineering. I’ve always been a fan of math and problem solving so engineering seemed like a reasonable pathway. This decision was solidified when I took a 2 year engineering course my junior and senior years of high school with an amazing teacher that became my mentor. I loved every minute of those years in that class, from planning out projects in Auto-CAD to wiring arcade buttons together in the empty shell of a machine. After deciding to pursue engineering as a career, I had to pick a specific discipline. Every field seemed so appealing, but what really helped me come to my conclusion is traveling with my family to big cities like New York City or Beijing. While many people see the buses and subway networks as just another mundane part of life, I was just a kid from the Suburbs in Ohio who had never seen anything of the sort in my entire life. The ability to pay a mere 2 quarters to travel all of the way from one end of a massive city to the other blew my mind, and that fascination sticks with me still to this day. This led me to pick civil engineering as my major, a discipline that might not be as flashy as chemical or biomedical but is just as if not more impactful.