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Year in Review
[ “Year in Review” is where you should reflect on the past year and show how you have evolved as a person and as a student. You may want to focus on your growth in a particular area (as a leader, scholar, researcher, etc.) or you may want to talk about your overall experience over the past year. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
G.O.A.L.S.
[ “G.O.A.L.S.” is a place where students write about how their planned, current, and future activities may fit into the Honors & Scholars G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.
Global Awareness: Students cultivate and develop their appreciation for diversity and each individual’s unique differences. For example, consider course work, study abroad, involvement in cultural organizations or activities, etc .
Original Inquiry: Honors & Scholars students understand the research process by engaging in experiences ranging from in-class scholarly endeavors to creative inquiry projects to independent experiences with top researchers across campus and in the global community. For example, consider research, creative productions or performances, advanced course work, etc.
Academic Enrichment: Honors & Scholars students pursue academic excellence through rigorous curricular experiences beyond the university norm both in and out of the classroom.
Leadership Development: Honors & Scholars students develop leadership skills that can be demonstrated in the classroom, in the community, in their co-curricular activities, and in their future roles in society.
Service Engagement: Honors & Scholars students commit to service to the community.]
Career
[“Career” is where you can collect information about your experiences and skills that will apply to your future career. Like your resume, this is information that will evolve over time and should be continually updated. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
Artifacts
[Artifacts are the items you consider to be representative of your academic interests and achievements. For each entry, include both an artifact and a detailed annotation. An annotation is a reflective description of the artifact that attempts to communicate its significance. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
About Me
I spent nine years of my life living in London, England. While there I was exposed to dozens of other languages and cultures, broadening my interest in discovery and diversity. The last five years, however, I lived in Chicago, IL. Around the time I moved to Chicago, I began suffering from chronic pain and various issues associated with it. Several years after the diagnosis I had to give up athletics, something that I had been passionate about for many, many years. Somehow, in less than four years I went from being the starting guard to being the school’s go-to person for aiding in reform and student outreach.
Throughout high school, I continued my passion for adventure, discovery, and inclusion. I was involved in numerous activities ranging from directing/producing theatre shows to founding the boys lacrosse team to leading our Science Olympiad team. I am dedicated and compassionate, and never pass up on an opportunity to challenge myself. The pain I experienced, and still experience, can be debilitating, but I do not let it stop me from doing what I love. I held many odd positions in my high school and was very highly regarded by the administration and faculty.
During the first semester of my senior year, I took a Civil Liberties class that was all about constitutional law and how it is played out in our society. I fell in love with the material we read and the topics we tackled. I even switched my major because of it. For a long time, I had wanted to be a doctor. I had remembered my struggle with hospitals and physicians at the beginning of my fight with chronic pain, and it inspired me to change the system and be the doctor that I had longed to find. However, when it occurred to me that I could make a bigger difference with the law, I quickly switched my major from Biology to Public Affairs, and I changed from Pre-med to Pre-law. I still have a passion for health and medicine, yet, there is something about changing a country that I find much more appealing than simply changing a hospital.
My time at OSU will be spent continuing my skills and refining my passions. Hopefully, I will be able to double-major and explore more of my interests. My time abroad exposed me to international issues, and my time in America showed me ways to tackle them. By graduation, I hope to be continuing to law school. From there, I am not sure where life will take me; possibly to a judge’s robe, or to a seat in the UN.