Allison Round is a first semester freshman at The Ohio State University with an Undecided major. Since she is undecided, she has decided to take a variety of classes in different subjects to experiment with different fields and figure out where her passions lie. Throughout this semester, she has found a variety of places to study and learned new ways to study. Currently, her favorite place to study is the basement of the 18th Avenue library. She has found that the 18th Avenue library basement is not as crowded as the other areas of the library and provide a nice, quiet environment for her to complete her studying. This semester, Allison has found Chemistry to be the most difficult class. This is due to the large amount of work accompanied by the five-credit hour class. She finds the weekly lab reports, pre-labs, and keeping up with the lecture material for exams to be very time-consuming and exhausting.
In high school, Allison participated in a variety of clubs and volunteering activities. She was involved with Key Club, National Honors Society (NHS), swimming, among many other extracurriculars. She hopes to continue that trend by volunteering at Ohio State as well. While the adjustment to the workload and difficult class schedule has made it difficult to volunteer in her first semester on campus, she hopes to change that and get involved more in her second semester at Ohio State.
Allison chose to be a part of the Advocates for Communities and Education Scholars (ACES) program due to her love for service and desire to branch out and explore new things in college. Since she has not yet decided on a major, Allison wanted to fully explore her options and believed that ACES might be the perfect way to do so. Since joining the program, she has met a variety of people in different majors and believes that being a part of a scholars program is a unique perspective due to the diversity in majors and subjects studied with a common goal to address issues in the community and provide service for those in need. In the scholars program, she is looking forward to building a sense of community and having that core group of people to help navigate her first year. She also hopes that being a part of this community will provide access to opportunities for volunteering and service that would be otherwise difficult to seek out.
As for careers, Allison is still unsure of her plans post-graduation. She believes that once she is able to identify a major that she would like to pursue, the possible career options will appear and she will be able to proceed from there. She is considering graduate school, however, since she has not narrowed down her field of interest, she cannot definitively put into words her plans after completing her undergraduate years at The Ohio State University.
While she hasn’t solidified her plans for the future, Allison has numerous skills to help her achieve her goals in whichever field she decides to pursue. She has a planner that she uses daily to organize her work and ensure that she finishes everything within the necessary time and deadlines. She finds that scheduling her time appropriately has helped her manage her time properly and have a successful first semester at Ohio State. Due to the difficult transition from high school to college, Allison believes that the most important thing that she has learned so far in her time at OSU is methods for effective studying and study habits that suit her style of learning. Overall, Allison has enjoyed her first semester of college and feels that she has learned a lot about college and about herself since the beginning of the year. She hopes to continue learning about her passions and growing in her time at Ohio State.