Spring Project Outline

For my Spring Project, I’ve wanted to always learn how to juggle seeing how much of an entertaining pastime it appeared to be. I’ve always wanted to sit down and learn how to juggle but I’ve never gotten any actual push for it. This Capstone Research project will allow me to learn how to juggle in a smaller amount of time and become the thing I’ve always wanted to learn about.

 

Diversity Event

A couple weeks ago, I attended an event run by a certain Hindu student organization called Hindu YUVA. The event was celebrating the birth of the god of satisfaction and happiness, Ganesha. Initially, I thought this event was gonna be boring and I would just be on my phone the whole 2 hours. However, this wasn’t the case at all. Throughout the event, I started meeting new people that knew people that I was friends with and started getting more involved in the event. This event was influenced through my own will to reconnect with my culture, heritage, and religion that I grew up with before coming to college. Since college is such a new environment and it changes a lot of people, it’s easy to forget the traditions that you’re born and raised with so student organizations like Hindu YUVA help rekindle that fire of maintaining my culture in me. When the event ended, I learned a lot more about my religion, how specific traditions and rituals ACTUALLY work, and I met a lot of people that I still talk to and go out with today. I also learned how to maintain the same traditions andcustoms taught to me by my family in college and future life.

Diversity and Inclusion affects STEM in a great way because STEM is all about bringing people in from different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds to becoming more involved with STEM-related fields like medicine, engineering, physics, math, computer science, and other revolutionary fields of study. By having diversity, it doesn’t necessarily mean diversity of only race; it also means diversity of thought. Diversity of thought is what fuels innovation and solutions in the STEM field because multiple opinions on a certain topic reflect multiple sides of a problem, allowing people to find the best possible solution to a problem. I feel, though, that there is too much stress on diversity and inclusion in OSU. People already include different races and socioeconomic backgrounds for the most part at OSU from what I’ve seen so far. People only care about the actions that you do that define yourselves, not your color or intelligence or affluence. If you allow for students to work themselves to promoting diversity and inclusion (which a lot of them stress anyways), OSU will run just as fine.

Overall, the event was definitely an eye – opener for me about my own religion that I grew up with  and realized that there is so much more to learn about the world and other cultures, including my own. This event helped me realize how much there is to my religion and how I can maintain the traditions and customs that I have learned for 17 years before moving to college

 

 

 

 

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