Month: July 2020

Q&A 2019-2020

My Goals – 

My goals for this year are academically get stronger and boost my GPA. I wish to be able to find one or two new clubs to participate in and to get more involved on campus.

My E-portfolio-

Is going to be more of a work portfolio as it is going to be mostly a work in progress and one that will help me build my aspirations for continuing with my goals.

Why am I Here? –

I’m here at college because I want to learn and grow as a person. I also want to be able to get a career that will help me continue to learn as well as help out my community.

Extra Curricular? –

I’m part of Bio-Sci scholars even with a uncommon major, Anthropology Public Outreach Program and Science & Humanities Club. I chose this club because I like to have both perspectives in life and since I have a Humanities degree, I thought that it would be a good idea to be a Bio-Sci scholar. APOP is a great way to introduce Anthropology to more people and so that it is a fun and diverse field. The S & H club is essentially the same reasoning but I will be helping in promoting this to campus.

Major Influences/ Academic interests-

I really enjoy all parts of Anthropology especially the cultural and biological parts.  I really like to see how we react to our culture and to the world around us from past to present, that and math is my least favorite subject.

Future Career Interests – 

To  go onto graduate school to pursue Anthropology and either work in the academic field or to work in the Museum field

Work Experiences-

During High School I have worked for 3 summers as a summer cleaner/ painter at my local elementary school and a year and a half as a store clerk in a local family owned Apple Orchard.

In college I was an Office Assistant in one of the dorms on campus during the school year for two years.

How Will I Change the World? –

Good question! At the moment…..I don’t know? I think I can start by small gestures of kindness and hope it expands from there for now. Who knows, maybe I’ll get hit with an idea someday!

How Do I / Can I Help My Community? –

I work with APOP to bring awareness of education and anthropology to both students, teachers and adults. Bio-Sci helps us find volunteer opportunities and I’ll find some on my own to go to through Columbus gives back which is a great organization. https://columbusgivesback.org/events/

Vision Statement

For the rest of my academic career I have a plan that is flexible  yet should help with moving on to the next part of my academics.

  • For Career
    •  talk to career counselors
    • make alumni connections in my chosen career field
    • Reach out to people in my career
  • During School
    • Internships
      • COSI
      • CMA
    • Field school
      • Ireland
      • Poland
      • US
        • Montana
        • Ohio
  • Study
    • boost GPA
  • Extra
    • Join a few clubs
    • Go to career fairs
    • Talk more with my departments & Professors

STEP trip

As much as I love exploring off campus, this was really a treat. My STEP advisor had been able to get us a tour of the local Greek Orthodox Church. This was a splendid piece of architecture that had the entire main room designed and decorated in glass. It is absolutely gorgeous and you could feel how proud and in love with the cathedral the people were.

It was a great trip as it is not something that I would have thought about doing myself. I didn’t grow up going to church myself and it was interesting to get a history lesson of the cathedral as well as the biblical stories behind the glass. For example this dome is as wide as the cross over which it sits and centered where the arms meet. Depicted is Christ the Pantocrator and surrounding him is the 24 Old Testament Patriarchs that feature into the genealogy of Christ.

It was really neat to be able to take a anthropological perspective into something that was right down the street from me. This was such a fantastic trip and I realize how privileged I am to be able to see something like this.

Skull Cart

As an Anthropology student I have to learn about the three different disciplines of Anthropology: Cultural, Physical, and Archaeological. With APOP I have a chance to teach others about anthropology and get them interested in what we do. One of my favorite volunteer outings is to work the cart at COSI. WE work a few saturdays for kids and their parents and also on Cosi in the Dark for adults.

For this we play a game with the skulls encouraging people to put them in order from earliest hominid to present. Then we place them in order and answer any questions posed to us. This is my favorite part because there’s always so many unique questions and the kids are really fun to work with. I love these skull casts because they are such a fun prop to work with and its really entertaining to talk about them. I also get the bonus of learning new facts about these casts and the hominids that they represent. The older students are also a great resource of information.

It’s a great way for me to volunteer as I quite enjoy working with Cosi and their staff. I get to work with fellow students and gain more connections within the Anthropology department.