IA, PSL, and ACES Late Night Breakfast
Social Event Reflection
4 December 2019, Smith-Steeb Hall, 9:00pm-10:30pm
The Wednesday of my first finals week at Ohio State, the leaders of the International Affairs Scholars Program, Politics, Society, and Law Scholars Program, and Advocates for Communities and Education Scholars program put on a late-night breakfast and social gathering for the members of the three programs. I attended the event with Caitlyn, one of my best friends from IA, but I was also excited to talk to people I had not met before. Not only did the event provide me with a much-needed study break and plenty of pancakes to power me through the rest of my exams, it ended up being a wonderful opportunity for me to get to know some of the students who live in my building and make up the Scholars community at Ohio State. This was the first social event I had attended with the Politics, Society, and Law Scholars as well as the Advocates for Communities and Education Scholars so I did not know many of them before the breakfast. It was intriguing to hear and discuss how the interests of each of the three scholars groups overlap, yet each student brought a slightly different perspective to the table. The event was representative of the great value of being a scholar at Ohio State and the opportunity for meaningful connections that comes with it.