About Me

My name is Natalie Hunt and I am a going into my freshman year of college. I am a pre-nursing major and with a future minor with neuroscience. I hope to start my career as a nurse by becoming a travel nurse and later settling down as a neuro nurse. In high school, I was an avid endurance runner in cross country and track. I was obsessed with running and how I could improve myself each practice and race I participated in. I ran from eighth grade until junior year when I moved schools. When I wasn’t in school, I was working at a restaurant and worked out late at night. Now, I recreationally work out to maintain my passion of athletics and keep in shape.

When I am not working out, I’m likely to be participating in other hobbies. Those hobbies include studying with friends, exploring/researching different cultures and their practices, relaxing in my dorm or outdoors with the birds, hiking and biking trails, making new friends, and bringing people together. My passion for pushing others for success, whether it be for health or academics, directed me towards the major of nursing. The different cultures I will encounter in the field provide motivation to learn about the diversity between all races and ethnicities. The ways I can support my peers or those asking for help drives me each and every day to be the best person I can be. Teamwork is dream work!

 

 

 

 

I am looking forward to the new year as a buckeye and greet every challenge with confidence. Go Bucks!

 

Blog 1: A little about me

My name is Natalie Hunt and I am a sophomore in the best nursing school in the land (no bias). I have wanted to be a nurse and a Buckeye ever since I could remember. The idea of being a nurse came to me in the seventh grade when I had a friend who would frequently pass out. I was able to stay calm and delegate tasks to other students for her sake while I got her legs up and tried to talk to her. My father has been a life long buckeye and I knew it would mean so much to him and the rest of my family if I was able to get into The Ohio State University.

The road to becoming a Buckeye was nothing other than rocky. My path wasn’t always clear. I never felt as though I was good enough to get into the College of Nursing knowing how competitive it is. I worked very hard on my academics but it never came easy. Unfortunately, I was bullied harshly when I moved to my second high school prior to my junior year. Regardless of the damage it did to my mental and emotional health, I was driven to try to get into the college of my dreams. I had plenty of time to focus on hobbies and academics.

With that being said, I really got into hiking since I live in Hocking Hills here in Ohio. I also love to hunt and fish (ironically, my last name is Hunt). I enjoy learning new and random things like the Diabolo, which is a Chinese yo-yo in a sense. When I have time, I love to play video games with my not-so-little little brother. We can cross play on Minecraft between different consoles since I am away at college a majority of the year. When I am home, I am usually playing with my animals. We have three cats, one rabbit, and a bearded dragon.

While I am away from home at OSU, I am very involved in and around campus. Last semester, I joined Block O and became heavily involved with the other students at sporting events. A fun fact is that I was a Block O painted kid for every game except for one. I also obtained a job as a waitress at the university diner called Sloopy’s Diner. I was recently promoted to a Student Lead, therefore I can make milkshakes, train other new employees, and take part in other functions around the restaurant. I am in both Honors and Scholars. The honors program I am in is the Nursing Honors so I can perform research throughout the rest of my undergraduate degree. The scholar program is the Dunn’s Sport and Wellness program. Basically, I volunteer within the community and emphasize wellness for not only myself, but those around me. Lastly, I recently joined the rowing team as a novice so that considers me as a student athlete. This semester will be very rigorous but I always welcome a challenge!

Volunteering at the USAPL 2019 Collegiate Nationals

Today, April 11th 2019, I volunteered at the USAPL 2019 Collegiate Nationals at the Hyatt Regency from 1:30 pm to 9:00pm. I learned about the volunteer opportunity through a fellow DSWS scholar who actually competes in it on a later date. She explained via group chat that they were low on volunteers and needed more to ensure the event ran smoothly. Since I enjoy working out and do so quite often, I figured spotting and loading the weights would be perfect. Not only did I have to lift up to 25 kg (55lb) weights, I also spotted the athletes as they attempted lifts. Seeing the excitement and hard work these athletes put into events like this inspired me to potentially try powerlifting. It is something I never thought about doing until I experienced it firsthand. The positive energy from the crowd and fellow spotters was immaculate. Never did I believe that I would have so much fun while ensuring the safety of lifters. I had to work as a team with the other spotters due to the excessive weights the lifters were attempting to hold. When changing plates, we would look out or each other and make sure we had the correct plates in chronological order. I was not afraid to question the weights of the other loader when I noticed a problem because I expected the same from them if I were to make a mistake. We used our physical and mental strength to endure the long hours of lifting heavy weights and catching very heavy lifts failed by athletes. Granted, I was only supposed to volunteer until 7:00pm, the weight lifting went over and I decided to stick around with my new friends and help pick up trash. Today, I am serving because I love to experience new tasks that challenge my capabilities. Today, I was certainly challenged physically and managed to persevere through 6+ hours of heavy weights and constantly moving. This experience most definitely made me a stronger person in different ways!

Volunteering at the Dunn Dash

On March 2nd, I volunteered for the Dunn Dash Indoor Triathlon from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm. The race itself was located in the RPAC and included 15 minutes of running on the indoor track, 15 minutes of biking on the stationary bikes, and 10 minutes of swimming in the pool. I found out about it through the Dunn’s Sport and Wellness Scholars group that I am a part of via weekly emails we receive. I was stationed at the check-in table where the participants first encounter before going to the race. Through this experience, I learned how to easily navigate participants through the RPAC to the different races in less than a minute. It helped with advancing my communication skills in a timely manner. Since I worked with one other person, we figured out a rhythm to manage the time of check in as efficiently as possible and get each racer to the checkpoint they needed to go to. The Dunn Dash helped improve my leadership skills by enhancing my communication skills in an efficient and friendly manner. I could direct people where to go without coming across as rude or egocentric. Instead, I was polite, greeted all with a smile, informed people of location and specific directions, and sent them off with a “Good luck!”. I am serving because I enjoy working with people and want to learn how to better my leadership skills as well as everyday life skills when working with the public. I find joy in providing my time to help an event run smoothly and achieve a successful turnout.

DSWS Day of Service

On Saturday, November 17th, I took part in the DSWS Day of Service from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. I was assigned to the group to go to the furniture bank. After arriving, our group was further separated into two more groups. I was part of the group that disassembled dressers donated by colleges into all the separate boards and parts. My team of four people made it a race to disassemble a whole dresser in about five minutes. We started out with the time around 15 minutes to take a whole one apart. By our sixth one, we had made an efficient system to lower our time to little under six minutes. Not only did we build team working skills, we also completed the work for the furniture bank’s volunteers to save them time and energy. Just from disassembling the wardrobe, I learned how valuable our efforts are just to the bank alone. They could build more pieces of smaller furniture in a shorter period of time to help more families. Without our work, it would have taken them much long to disassemble and reassemble all the furniture. Most of these workers are also volunteers working out of the kindness of their hearts and from their own time. It meant much to me and my fellow DSWS volunteers to help these selfless folks out. I hope to be volunteer for them in the future to help the less fortunate affected in our own community.

Columbus Marathon

On Sunday, October 21 from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm, I volunteered for the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus City Marathon at water stop 12 on mile 17.3. Runners woke up super early to run this full or half marathon for the sake ill children and funding research to find cures for life-threatening diseases. It is truly inspiring to see the people of whom trained for months just to run the full or half marathon. Volunteering at this event shows how the volunteers are just as important as the runners themselves, even if it is as simple as water stop workers. The gratitude of passing runners for receiving water and support brought a smile to my face each time. It was an amazing experience to share with those runners as they closed in on the finish line. Even at mile 17.3, the spirit of the race was thriving! Regardless that I am not a morning person, it was absolutely worth waking up very early and being present at this marathon. I am thrilled to have been apart of this event and look forward to hopefully volunteering again next year!

Homecoming Parade

On October 5th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, I had the opportunity to volunteer as a pacer. My job was to ensure that the pace of the parade cars I was assigned to were keeping up with the flow of the parade. While doing so, I learned about the organizations behind some of the parade floats. Some were nonprofit organizations and others consisted of the student greek life. I was enlightened upon the agricultural greek life while I paced close to their vehicle. It was a neat experience to be apart of and learn as I worked! Additionally, I had the honor of meeting and capturing a photo with the president of OSU; President Michael V. Drake! I look forward to being apart of the parade next year!

True Colors Reflection

Today, we performed a personality test known as the “True Color Indicator”. This test reflects upon your choices of four groupings of three words. In the row of four, you would rank the grouping of three words with a 1 to 4 with four being your best. Once you have finished ranking the rows, you add the columns. The color with the highest number indicates the one you compare with most. The four colors are orange, gold, green, or blue.

After performing this test and adding the columns, the sums indicated that gold described me best. Gold is represented by organization, loyalty, procedural, and responsible. Most of my strong suites are based from the gold perspective. I am very orderly and conventional when it comes to quotas that need to be met. Having a list set up for the day of things to be accomplished allows me to ensure all tasks are completely with efficiency.

Gold is recognized for being practical, dependable, and . I can say I relate well to staying practical in problematic situations and being a reliable team player. I respond well to spontaneous call-ins on my days off of work, therefore I am very dependable worker. The hard, loyal worker you’ll meet in my interview is the employee you’ll see in the field.

The True Color Test gives light and amazing adjectives to relate with. The results and descriptions are almost scarily accurate. If you research the True Color Test and it’s results, you will be delighted to find a worker whom possesses the true color of gold.

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.]