This week I visited the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering advising office to seek help. Setting up an appointment was super easy, as I only had to email my academic adivsor and give her times that I was available. I made an appointment with my academic advisor to discuss how I was struggling to figure out how to fit all of the major prerequisites in to my schedule in time to actually apply to my major. The experience of seeking help was not necessarily new to me, as I would occasionally discuss with my high school 
guidance counselors or teachers what were the best options for me and how I could improve myself as a student, but the experience was a whole lot better than high school. My high school counselors were always busy and not that helpful in discussing options and plans for classes to take and I would often leave frustrated. With my advisor, however, I was able to sit down with questions I had regarding the pre-major classes and what options I had to fit them into my schedule and my advisor was super helpful in discussing the best options I had and I left feeling much more hopeful and positive about my academic schedule. She used the aerospace engineering curriculum sheet to help explain and show me what classes I still had to take and how I could rearrange them to fit a few classes in. It was also nice to talk one on one and get personalized help instead of asking questions in a survey lecture hall of a few hundred students. Overall, it was an excellent experience and I will definitely be returning to the advising office for help.
Having academic advisors for each department is so incredibly useful to all of Ohio State University students, as they not only provide students help with educational plans and academic goals but helps connect students to different resources on campus. As long as each student puts in effort and seeks help from their advising office, they have another leg up in college and a much bigger chance of success. Other places that students can seek help at to improve their chances of success include the Dennis Learning Center for academic coaching, the Math and Statistics Learning Center, the Writing Center in Thompson Library, or any other department tutoring places such as Smith Lab for physics tutoring.
Having these support systems and tutors for students is an incredible resource for students, and it takes a lot of time and money for the university and the people who manage them. I think it would be interesting becoming involved with one of these support systems for students and helping them academically. It would be challenging but also rewarding to see people succeed. For me personally, I believe in the future I would be best suited to help tutor a subject that I knew best, such as math or physics. This would allow me to help people to the best of my abilities and give back to the student body in need of that resource.