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Month: August 2015
Year in Review
I can’t believe I am halfway through my undergrad careear! It feels like it was just yesterday when I walked around campus with my map. This year has been truly amazing and I will always cherish this experience. I have met a lot of new people in the English Conversation Program, Honors and Scholars Ambassador and Boys and Girls Club. I also got a new job as a student assistant at a college’s office and I learned a lot about the business side of the university. Although this year has been really stressful, I have found what I really want as career. I switched from business to pre-med after much self-reflection. I learned many new things and I look forward to further expand my learning in the future years to come.
G.O.A.L.S.
During my participation in IA, I have learned so much about myself and the community around me. Because of IA, I took the initiative to learn more about Columbus by volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club. If it wasn’t IA, I wouldn’t have learned the other side of Columbus where poverty and refugees are still very prevalent. IA also provided me with the opportunity to develop my leadership skills by becoming a Honors and Scholars Ambassador. Through this position, I was really honored to volunteer my time in order to make future buckeyes to feel at home at Ohio State. I am also really thankful for IA for giving me the resources such as amazing advisers and services to make my study abroad in South Korea possible over the summer of 2017.
Career
Artifacts
Child Mortality-open link
Through this UN Millennium Goal Project, I definitely have learned a lot about the major progress UN and the world have done to improve living conditions across the globe. Honestly, before this project, I had no idea that the 8 millennium goals existed. Obviously, I knew many people in the world live in really poor conditions and we, Americans, are the lucky ones who use up so much resources while we only constitute a small part of the world population. To put it in such perspective, I am really glad that the international community is doing something to help combat child mortality and diseases, to spread education, and etc.
My UN Millennium Goal was child mortality. As the above presentation shows, child mortality has significantly decreased over the years through initiatives implemented by the UN and other organizations across the world. Preventive measures include mosquito nets, vaccines, child care education and etc. Overall, cooperation among health care manufactures, providers, and governments has dramatically provided low cost and wide-spread health service to many people. So, it is possible to better human conditions through diplomacy and negotiations.
About Me
My name is Anna Guo and I am a second-year student. I come from the Cincinnati area, also known as Milford,OH; but I was born in New York. My parents are from China, so I do have a descent knowledge of Asian culture and cuisine. Food is my best friend. Hopefully, I will be able to make most out of Columbus’s vast variety of ethnic food. More importantly, I wish to identify with people who share the same Asian American background as me or with those people who feel deeply passionate about diversity and cultural awareness. The IA Scholars program definitely opens up the possibility to meet people who love to learn about other people and cultures around the world. More importantly, the scholars program gives deep and insightful voice to ideas such as identity and my relationship to the world.
At OSU, I plan to major in neuroscience and I am on the pre-med track. I furtively hope that I will be able to exercise time management skills and have a balance academic and social schedule. I am studying abroad in South Korea over the summer of 2017. So, I am super excited to further my academic goals while studying in such a stunning country. I hope to get do research next year in healthcare and eventually get an internship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. With all these possibilities, my four years at OSU will definitely be a road filled with failures, adventures, and success.