Month: April 2020

April 23, 2020 7-8 pm

This event took place over a Zoom meeting because we are all social distancing. I loved to be able to help the incoming and prospective IA Scholars, especially during this difficult time. I can only imagine how much more difficult the social distancing has made it for them to decide and feel comfortable making chooses about the college futures. I hoped that I could have helped them to lessen there concerns.

I was so excited to meet incoming IA Scholars, as well. I plan on being a mentor next year, so maybe I met my mentee in this meeting. That would be really cool! I was also really excited when one of the new members said they were planning to minor in Korean. I love the Korean program here at Ohio State and hope that I gave her the information she was looking for.

It was also great to see some of my friends that took part in the Q&A along with me. Because we had to move out right after spring break, I did not really have the chance to say goodbye to everyone I wanted to. It has also been crazy trying to transition and get used to online classes, so I haven’t had the chance to talk to many people either. Because I did this meeting I was able to see a lot of familiar faces and it made me really happy!

April 3, 2020 8-10 pm

This event took place over a Zoom meeting. Because we are all social distancing we had to watch the movie in separate places, but still wanted to have the experience of watching together. So, we started the evening by talking a little before watching the movie. We introduced ourselves and then started the movie once everyone was settled. At first we tried screen sharing, but the quality was nit very good so we each decided to pull up the movie on our own devices, but kept the chat open.

The movie we watched was a Thai film directed by Kristen Tan, called Pop Aye. It tells the story of a man going through a mid-life crisis and reminiscing on his childhood after being “reunited” with an elephant he grew up with. We meet a lot of different characters along his journey and the story is very interesting. I have never seen a Thai movie before, and I thought it was pretty good.

I liked that we were still able to get together to watch a movie, especially during this time. When we were on campus I loved going to this event and so having just a little bit of normalcy was comforting. I enjoyed talking to everyone once the movie was over, also. It was great hearing everyone else’s opinion right after we finished.