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Month: August 2019
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 guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. 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 guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. 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 guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
Academic Resources
There are many excellent academic resources around Ohio State’s campus, and one of them is the Math and Statistics Learning Center. I visited the Math and Statistics Learning Center earlier this week for help working through difficult exam preparation material, due to my first Calc 2 midterm being this Thursday! Despite it ultimately being a positive experience, I will admit that I felt very strange and uncomfortable when first going into this setting. I have always had a strong academic drive and have been able to succeed in my high school classes without much need for outside help, so I was fairly conditioned to view the act of going to tutoring as stigmatic, to say the least. However, Ohio State has opened my eyes to the reality that attending tutoring is not only okay, but encouraged. This has been repeated to me time and time again, most notably in the First Year Success Series I attended as well as by my academic advisor. Additionally, I have heard from several of my peers that they have visited the MSLC’s free tutoring and that it was great. Bearing all of this in mind, I abandoned my discomfort, strolled boldly into the Math 1172 Free Tutoring room at Cockins Hall and found a seat.
Asking for outside help was definitely a new experience for me. Even after I sat down at a table and laid out all of my homework, I still was not fully immersed in the tutoring. The way that the MSLC organizes this particular free tutoring session is very interesting due to several factors I noticed while attending. First off, help is not immediately just given. It is true that several graduate and post-graduate student tutors are constantly roaming around the room helping others, but one must raise their hand and wait for a tutor to make their way to them before any help is given. This was especially tough for me at first, due to the fact that I entered the room without any questions ready since I had no clue what to expect. However, like many other students in the room, I began working through my homework until I eventually hit a stumbling block, at which point I raised my hand and was quickly met by a tutor.
The help I received at the Math and Statistics Learning Center was very personalized, and the graduate students roaming around the room were skilled in explaining difficult content in a clear fashion. Their strong grasp of the course material was evident in the fluency of their different teaching styles, and I feel like I gained a deeper understanding of the material from them than I have in the lecture hall. I appreciated the tutoring style of the MSLC because it truly allows students to work at their own pace, and receive help only when they need it. After this visit, I am certain that I will be visiting the Math and Statistics Learning Center, as well as several other academic resources on campus, much more often and without feeling odd about it!
Here is a photo I shot of me walking out of the MSLC at Cockins Hall, feeling much more confident about Thursday’s midterm!
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About Me
My name is Austin Hendricks and I am a first-year student at The Ohio State University. I am majoring in Mechanical Engineering and am very excited to progress through OSU’s first-year engineering program! There are several reasons I chose to pursue a mechanical engineering degree, and among those is the fact that I am very good at math. Math and science have always been my favorite subjects in school, and I love how in college almost all of my classes are now math-oriented! Growing up, I always liked to build things–legos, self-assembled toy cars, and even the occasional (basic) computer program! Learning how things work has always been something I am very intrigued by. Progression of this as I got older led me to love science, especially physics, which is why I chose mechanical engineering over the other specializations within engineering. I can’t wait to get the most out of my first year at Ohio State! Here is a great photo of my siblings and me on move-in day!
