As a freshman, I’m excited to say that through Ohio State and through the Fisher College of Business, I get to study abroad during May semester. I’m only a first-year, I am just about to move out of my first dorm room, go home for the first time in 5 months and I get this amazing opportunity. We will visit financial corporations in Switzerland and Italy and be able to have conversations with real International Businesses which is such an huge opportunity to network. I don’t know any other business school that would have provided this opportunity to its first years and this is just another reason why I love Ohio State.

I went through formal recruitment and I’m now an active member of Pi Beta Phi’s Ohio Beta chapter here at Ohio State. Pi Phi has changed my life, only being in it for a semester I’ve learned to already be a better person and I have so many new, amazing people in my life that I didn’t have before. I now have a family here at Ohio State and somewhere where I feel welcomed and belonged. It has already challenged me to be the best version of myself and I can already tell that my sisters will be the ones that stand up in my wedding and will forever be here for me. I cannot wait for the next 3 years and continue to improving myself as a person and the life of others through Pi Phi.

First semester was extremely rough for me, I had troubles adjusting to college and because I had too high of pride I never admitted it. But throughout the social struggles I faced I ended up my first semester with a 3.93 GPA and that is my second “artifact”. Grades have always been such an important part of my life and I’m so glad that my academic life was doing so well to be accepted in Fisher’s Honors College. This proved that when a certain aspect in life is not going well, at least work as hard as you can to make a different aspect of your life something a little better so it doesn’t all seem so bad.

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Above is the link to my Millennium Development Goal presentation on Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reducing childhood mortality was one of the UN’s development goals and we chose to focus on sub-saharan Africa. We chose this region because of the effects of colonization from Europe that impacts this region and we talked a lot about colonization in class and it’s effects on the world. Sub-saharan Africa is still unfortunately the top-leading region with the most under 5 year old deaths. This is partly due to the fact that the infrastructure such as sanitary and sewage systems are not up to standards and the lack of medical experience/knowledge.

These development goals help to make the whole world better and help create a world standard for every country and region. These standards help provide a better life and better opportunities for all parts of the world. Most risks pertaining to childhood mortality can be prevented but without knowledge about pregnancy, family planning, vaccinations, and modern medicine some of these countries will continue to see childhood mortality rates staying the same or worsening. Everyone deserves to live and grow up healthy and thankfully the UN has helped Sub-Saharan and other regions of the world out in trying to achieve this goal.