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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 information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. 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 information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. 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 information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
Artifacts
[Artifacts are the items you consider to be representative of your academic interests and achievements. For each entry, include both an artifact and a detailed annotation. An annotation is a reflective description of the artifact that attempts to communicate its significance. For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
About Me
My name is Kyle Hustek and I am a freshman at The Ohio State University. Growing up, I went to St. John’s Lutheran School in Marysville Ohio, and then I moved on to Jonathan Alder High School. Jonathan Alder is a very small school surrounded by corn, soybeans, and a state highway, but that never stopped us from developing a high reputation in athletics, academics, and performing arts. I myself took parts in all kinds of extracurricular activities. In High School I played Soccer and Tennis, was a part of my schools Varsity Quick Recall Team, Student Council, LEO Club, and Science Club. I also was the Vice President of our Spanish and Math Clubs, and was the President of our chapter of National Honor Society. However, what I am most proud of during my time at Jonathan Alder was my role in performing arts.
My freshman year I was one of four students accepted into my high school’s show choir, High Society. It was there that I began learning to sing and to dance, and developed the music skills I had begun learning in middle school. I was a member of this choir for four years, with a uniquely themed show selected each year. During my time in High Society Show Choir, I also took part in my High School’s Spring Musicals and a few Fall Plays. I had roles in “Big The Musical”, “The Sound of Music”, “The Curious Savage”, “The Little Mermaid”, and “Mary Poppins” as “Zoltar”, “Rolff”, “Jeff”, “Chef Louis”, and “Valentine/Chimeny Sweep Dancer” respectively. This summer my friend and I were asked to be a part of Imagine Productions’ presentation of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”, at Northland Performing Arts Center, as an Aggie Dancer.
My junior year our school got a new band director named Justin Hennig, who graduated from OSU and was a member of TBDBITL. He really re-worked the entire marching band scene at my school, and so, despite my thinking marching band was “lame” my freshman and sophomore year (yes, strong words from the musicals and choir nerd), I decided to pick up the trumpet. During that year, I was a member of my marching band’s Squad of the Year, and was positioned at the front of our band right behind our majorettes. As the mischievous person I was, I would always try to switch positions with one of my friends who was a majorette, and see if the director would notice, which of course he always did. Sometimes he would joke and say,” If you want to be in the front, then try out to be a majorette.” So I did. I showed up to tryouts with minimal knowledge of what it even was the majorette’s did, and they gave me a little crash course in what to do, so I was a little shocked when I walked in and they told me that I had made the team and would be my high school’s first ever Drum Major. I had no idea what that really entailed until my director told me about OSU’s Summer Training Sessions for the band, which I attended and learned how to be an Ohio State style Drum Major, before returning to my high school to try and incorporate what I learned into what my school had always done. After lots of work and compromise between myself, the directors, the majorettes and the remainder of our band, things turned out rather well, and to end off my senior year, I got to lead the band in the nationally televised Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade.
