Mentor Meeting

I had a conversation with my mentor, Kayla Flick. Kayla is a second year Chemical Engineering major with a bio molecular focus here at Ohio State. I asked Kayla these five questions:

  1. Outside of your room, what is your favorite study spot on campus?
  2. How have you chosen to get involved on campus?
  3. What ENR Scholars opportunities are you glad you participated in?
  4. What do you plan to do with your major after graduation (enter workforce,
    graduate/professional school, travel, etc.)?
  5. What is your dream job and why?

Outside of her room, Kayla’s favorite spot to study is the library in Orton Hall. She also enjoys studying in empty rooms in the RPAC. I have not tried studying in either of these buildings yet. However, Orton Hall is super quiet and I would like to give it a try soon. Kayla is involved on campus with more than just ENR scholars. She is also the grant writing chair for Engineers Without Borders and on a Buckeyethon team. I joined Engineers Without Borders as well. Sometimes I will see Kayla the meetings or events. I have heard of Buckeyethon, but unfortunately did not sign up this year. After hearing more about it, I am very interested in getting involved with Buckeyethon next year. Kayla plans to enter the workforce after graduation. She has a few options. She is interested in doing research and development with tissue engineering or work with sustainable energy sources. Kayla’s dream job is to work for a small company on a secret project like genetic research or development of new materials. I am also considering working with sustainable energy sources! In fact, I am working on the Smart Campus Challenge project right now in attempt to make Ohio State’s campus more sustainable. Kayla’s favorite ENR scholars memory this year was the camping trip. My favorite memory was also the camping trip. One part of the camping trip in particular that stuck out to me was playing Werewolf around the camp fire with a bunch of first and second years after our long hike. Kayla and I were on opposite teams that game and were both trying to convince everyone that we were on the good side.

Having Kayla as a mentor this semester has been awesome! She is another engineering student I can ask questions to and she was very welcoming from the very beginning of the year. In fact, within the first week of being at school, I got the chance to go rock climbing with Kayla and some other mentors. Making the transition to college was much easier with the help of these second year mentors.