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 guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

G.O.A.L.S.

To complete the G portion of G.O.A.L.S. I want to study abroad in Spain. The G is for global awareness and I want to be able to travel and learn new things about new cultures and countries. I also think it would be fun for me to study abroad because I am a Spanish minor so going to a Spanish speaking country will help me grab a better aspect of the language to use after I graduate. For the O, I am already taking honors level classes and in my honors physiology class we are doing a research project as well as our REP projects. I’m excited to do research about a specific thing and be able to conduct an experiment and test whether or not the idea my group is testing is true or not. In psychology we also have our “Mythbusters” assignment where we are finding research and conducting surveys, experiments, etc. to prove that incorrect beliefs in the physiological world are false. For Academic Enrichment, I plan to continue to take classes that go with my major and minor, and possibly add another minor that could help me in the future. As of right now I am a pre med psychology major with a Spanish minor. I may add a minor involving children or development because I want to be a pediatric and adolescent psychiatrist and help young people dealing with mental health issues. I added my Spanish minor because I want to add onto the Spanish I already know from growing up and that I learned in high school and master that to be able to help a wider range of people who may not know English. For the Leadership Development portion I plan to become more involved in student activities. I am already involved in the Students for Refugees club and I am about to start working at Sloopy’s diner. I pan to become more involved in more political student clubs and clubs involved with mental health because it will be beneficial to me because I have mental illness and I can learn from other people and their experiences in my future career. For the final part of G.O.A.L.S., I plan to do more service and volunteer work for the students for refugees to help refugees become situated in the United States. For my volunteering I want to help teach refugees English and I want to help tutor young children.

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 guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

Artifacts

[Artifacts are the items you consider to be representative of your academic interests and achievements. For each entry, include both an artifact and a detailed annotation.  An annotation includes both a description of the artifact and a reflection on why it is important to you, what you learned, and what it means for your next steps.  For more guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

About Me

Hi!

My name is Maria McCoy and I am from Whitehall, Ohio, which is a suburb of Columbus about 20 minutes from here. I’m 17 years old and I’m a pre-med psychology major with plans of going to med school and I want to be a pediatric and adolescent psychiatrist in the future. I want to help young kids and teens who have mental health issues because I personally know how helpful it can be for young people with these issues to have a support system and get the help that they need. I love animals and I’m a huge people person and love meeting new people. I love helping others and being a support system for my friends, which is another reason I’m following the pathway to become a psychiatrist. I’m very excited for my first year at The Ohio State University!