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Hocking Hills Trip

Over spring break this summer my friends that I met in Barrett and BioSci all wanted to go on spring break together but we were on a budget and some of us couldn’t be gone the whole week so we looked for somewhere closer to home than a beach. We searched around and decided that Hocking Hills looked like a great place, so we found a cabin to rent and made our plans. We had to plan out all of our meals before hand since there weren’t any restaurants nearby. We picked a time to all meet there since we were coming from different parts of Ohio and all made it safely.

This was a unique experience since there wasn’t any cell phone reception there, so we really got to live in moment. We went on hikes and had a fire and had a great few days getting to know each other better. We’ve already started planning a new trip for next year!

Hot Chocolate 5k/15k

Biological Scholars had a service event at the Hot Chocolate run on Sunday November 18. We met at water stop #4 bright and early at 6a.m. Once the race organizers arrived and dropped off the tables and other supplies, we set everything up and filled thousands of cups with water and sports drink. When the runners started passing us we handed them all drinks and cheered them on. It was cold out, but a lot of fun and the runners were very appreciative.

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An important event to me was graduation. I ended high school with a 5.11 (4.0 unweighted) GPA as Salutatorian of my class. I’m very proud of this achievement because I worked hard to get the grades I got.  I took difficult classes and won 11 varsity letters in high school. Graduating 2nd in my class is something I will never forget and when I start to lose motivation, it reminds me that hard work pays off!

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On October 4th, 2018, I attended an event hosted by Biological Sciences Scholars in Townshend Hall about the opioid crisis. The Opioid Research Panel had four professionals from Columbus who talked about their research. They discussed various aspects of addiction, from causes to treatments. I thought that the most interesting part was Dr. Huber’s flowchart of treatment presented by one of the professionals. He highlighted that research needed to be done to determine which steps of recovery are the most effective and use those ways. He had discovered that a lot of traditional parts of the recovery process were ineffective and unnecessary.

The opioid crisis is a big issue in Ohio today and I know people affected by it, so I’m very interested in ways to fix it. This panel exposed me to new ways of thinking about the crisis.