Year in Review

[ “Year in Review”  is where you should reflect on the past year and show how you have evolved as a person and as a student.  You may want to focus on your growth in a particular area (as a leader, scholar, researcher, etc.) or you may want to talk about your overall experience over the past year.  For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

Global Awareness

The “G” in the G.O.A.L.S. acronym stands for Global Awareness. To me, global awareness indicates a greater awareness of the world and differences in people, cultures, opinions, etc. It is not only understanding that others are different, but appreciating and embracing that diversity to enrich the world that I believe makes a globally aware individual. I hope to discover more of these differences in my classes. In particular, I am planning on taking Sociology, Anthropology, International Studies, and Spanish, which I believe will help expand my understanding of other cultures and people. As a student with Indian ancestry, I am a member of the Indian American Association and Indian Student Association on campus, however, I believe that diversity does not only lie in race. I think that in every class, program, and organization, there is some level of diversity, whether it be diversity of gender, religion, ideas, age, ability, wealth, knowledge, or any other characteristic used to describe a person. In just the first few weeks of college, I met people drastically different from me in every way, and it has been an eye-opening journey that I look forward to continuing through classes, clubs, and service in my next few years of college.

Career

[“Career” is where you can collect information about your experiences and skills that will apply to your future career.  Like your resume, this is information that will evolve over time and should be continually updated.   For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

Meningitis Poster

Link to Meningitis Poster: Meningitis-2es8tui

This poster was my final project for my Biology 1113 class this semester. It was created as a final project for the biology lab and aimed to combine multiple concepts learned over the course of the class. As a student interested in medicine, I was very intrigued when my TA mentioned that for the final project, we would choose a disease to research and present in our lab groups. My group chose Meningitis per my request because I was fascinated with how the bacteria infects the human brain and the prevalence of this disease on college campuses before the discovery of the vaccine. It not only required a lot of time to complete this project, but it was also one of the only times this semester that I believe that I fully immersed myself in a group project and created a product that made me truly proud. It strengthened my research skills, my presentation skills, and my teamwork skills. The group created a work distribution statement and I was tasked with understanding the mode of infection for this disease which peaked my interest strongly. As a pre-med student in college, I think that sometimes the main focus is the chemistry and biology classes in preparation for the MCAT, but this project helped remind me the reason that I became interested in medicine in the first place. It is the disease, treatment, and impact on the human body that drives my interest in the medical field, and that is what I was re-exposed to over the course of this project.

About Me

Ellora Majumder is a first-year undergraduate student in the Neuroscience program at The Ohio State University in the Advocates for Communities and Education Scholars program. In the future, she hopes to engage in neuroscience research and attend medical school to become a neurologist and study neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, among many others. Aside from science and medicine, Ellora has a variety of passions from the arts with music, dance, and theater, to community service and working with children, specifically tutoring and teaching young kids. She has been the head volunteer of a local non-profit named CoolTechGirls for the past four years. The organization aims to expose young girls in school to opportunities in the STEM fields through monthly events that Ellora helps organize and facilitate. On campus, she is currently involved with medical-focused organizations, such as MEDLIFE and Buckeyes for Save a Child’s Heart, as well as service organizations such as Smiles with Style. In her free time, she enjoys finding new music, baking, and exploring the realm of fashion.