Student Wellness Center Presentation

Academic Event
August 27, 2019 at Mendenhall Lab from 7-8pm

At a presentation from the Student Wellness Center for IA, we learned about all the great resources they offer as well as how we can maintain our health during our time in college. I found this presentation to be incredibly helpful. It was great to hear more about what the Wellness Center offered, many of which I didn’t know about. This presentation was particularly related to my Human Biology course this semester. In the course, our professor mentioned that we would be looking in depth into not just what makes up the human body, but also how to keep a healthy body. So, I thought our conversation that night on what resources we have to do just that and to stay mentally healthy as well was really relevant. 

Near the end of the presentation, we were challenged to set a personal goal for ourselves using the SMART goal outline. Learning the SMART goal technique helped me in turning some of my own academic and personal goals into more specific and realistic ones. For example, one of my goals is to study abroad. Using the SMART model, I said specifically my goal was to meet with someone at the Office of International Affairs and that I would try to do that by the end of the semester. 

Overall, the presentation left a strong impact on me by showing me all that OSU has to offer to its students like finance counseling, wellness counseling, and even a food pantry. It also gave me good strategies on how to use these resources and how to set meaningful goals for myself. 

Community Commitment

Service Event

August 24, 2019 at the Ohio Union

On my first full Saturday here at Ohio State I was so excited to participate in Community Commitment. Participating in service projects and volunteering has always been an interest of mine, so this was the perfect way to start off my time here. I don’t know what I was expecting but I certainly wasn’t expecting a group so large gathered at the Ohio Union at 8 am on a Saturday morning. The sheer amount of students there, whether they were with groups or as individuals, was really amazing and left a deep impact on me. It made me so happy to see so many other students committed to helping others even for just a morning. 

Once the event got underway and we all went our separate ways, my group went to Habitat for Humanity’s Restore, which they described as a Goodwill-style hardware store. The task they gave us was to break apart these wooden pallets with crowbars and sledgehammers. I’ll admit I was a little intimidated to use these tools since I had no experience with them. However, once we got started it all started to flow and I got the hang of it. My group began a routine of one of us using the crowbar to take the back slats of wood off then we would flip it over and we’d take the sledgehammers to the rest.

When our time there came to an end it was really fulfilling to see that the piles of pallets had gone down significantly. And despite being intimidated by these tools at first, the experience was quite therapeutic; giving us all a chance to get out any anger or worries resting upon us. The service we did and that many others did that day reminded me of IA because there are people everywhere in need of help. Whether it’s somewhere here or abroad, doing service work to benefit others and working together to get the work done is always a positive experience, and one of the most rewarding activities to do. I found this experience to be no different and I hope to do more service throughout my life.