This is a photograph from one of my most valuable experiences in high school, when I was President of the school’s Thespian Society and was able to help run the schoolwide food drive for the Mid-Ohio Food Collective. Each year, our school’s Thespian Society had a service event known as ‘Trick-or-Treat So Kids Can Eat’ where we would go out on Halloween night and ask for canned goods instead of candy. We also had boxes at the front of the school where other students could donate canned goods as well. As President, I was in charge of organizing the groups that went out that night and giving them specific routes to go along. After we went out trick-or-treating for cans, we would go back to the high school and organize all of the goods we had collected that night as well as the rest of the items donated by other students. Each year, we were able to collect over 1,000 items as a school, and we would typically surpass the amount of goods that we collected each year. This experience was very meaningful to me because of how much we were able to collect for the Mid-Ohio Food Collective. Knowing that the efforts made to go out and collect goods was making a difference in somebody’s life was very important to me and I’m so glad I was able to experience the event in a leadership position. As a leader, this experience was valuable to me because it allowed for me to realize the importance of providing for those who don’t always have the means to provide for themselves. This influenced my decision to go to Ohio State as a political science major as well as my decision to join Mount, because I want to make helping others one of the main priorities of my life.
