Resume

As a student at The Ohio State Univeristy, I’ve had the opportunity to be a part of a number of communities within the university.  The first community I was able the be a part of was the STEM EE Scholars Program, which has given me the chance to learn about majors and areas of study well outside my own. I’ve also been a part of the Women’s Water Polo Club, where I’ve learned to accept criticism and work to make changes. I would not be able to be a part of the Water Polo Club without being able to learn from my mistakes and be open minded. Finally, I’ve had the pleasure of working at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. Here, I have learned to ask for help when I need it and how to work with large amounts of people to run a major swim meet or function day-to-day.  All together, I’ve become better at time management and prioritizing what is truly important to me. Below is a copy of my resume, with more of these outlined.

 

Madison Nurre’s Resume

G.O.A.L.S.

The L in GOALS has always held a special place in my heart.  Before my freshman year, I was fortunate enough to be selected to go to The Leadership Collaborative, which has shaped me more than any other experience I have had at Ohio State.  The Leadership Collaborative is a four-day conference with workshops, speakers, and discussion groups focusing on how to be a peer leader in the Ohio State community as well as networking lunches, breakfasts, and dinners almost every day.  I was also lucky enough to meet some of my best friends, and gain mentors who would later help me get through my freshman year of college.

In the future, I see myself focusing on the G in GOALS: Global Awareness.  I have never been outside the United States, however my father, cousins, aunts, and uncles have all traveled to a myriad of places.  Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, and a slew of pacific islands hold hundred of tiny push pins on a map in my house. My godmother (who worked for the American Red Cross) raves about her experiences dog-sledding, scuba-diving, exploring temples, and (most notably) sneaking onto a bus traveling to North Korea.  I have been raised in a family where leaving the United States is practically a requirement.  I can only imagine the kinds of lessons I’ll learn when I have the opportunity to explore the world.

Career

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Artifacts

At the end of my senior year of high school, I was tasked with an Inquiry Project – effectively a “Capstone” project and it was to take the entire semester.  The goal was to chose an author with a partner, read (between the two partners) two of his/her works, and then create a presentation, a paper, and a physical manifestation of your ideas. Along the way, we were required to submit a proposal and an update a the halfway point. My partner Erica and I chose Cormack McCarthy, who is renowned for his graphic and serious representation of violence as it exists in extreme situations.  I read The Road, and Erica read Blood Meridian. I had no idea how much I knew until I was forced to put it into all of these assignments.  I truly enjoyed analyzing every minute portion of the text, as well as working alongside one of my close friends before we each left for college (I to Ohio State and she to George Washington).  It taught me how to work as a team, how to plan and work in the long run (over several months), and it taught me that I am capable of great things when I set my mind to it.

Inquiry Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10XF2DzNs1yiCSidEoL0H79PC35rr_DsddEpNR476mFY/edit?usp=sharing

Inquiry Update: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-kQOShSjCPFsxYZ0HZwNn0X74b7srWPFCdjYaWw_Rzs/edit?usp=sharing

Final Inquiry Summary Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZHhGWvCz3fU0rnREkxZVGYZAIZ1fnsXglozqT4U6Dr4/edit?usp=sharing

Final Inquiry Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17POck7ek87B-ZsS5qwXrSfjtwigca5w2FhbaI6XbOPI/edit?usp=sharing

Physical Product: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_OKlBuS6gobc1JLTWlBTC1WbFdaaDVGQjMtT3gzc2NVd0hj/view?usp=sharing

The physical product is a packing tape sculpture that was made by wrapping saran wrap and then packing tape around a friend of mine from my water polo team. We gave her a straw to breathe out of while sculpting her face, but we needed to work quickly as being saran wrapped over your face is a claustrophobia-inducing experience.  Later we added a police car on one shoulder and a bottle of Jack Daniels on the other to symbolize the good and the bad (alcohol was a symbol of poor decisions and violence in each of our books) that everyone (represented by the faceless, clear, colorless human figure tilting its head in thought) had to chose between.

About Me

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Hi, I’m Madison!  I’m a first-year accounting and finance major at The Ohio State University.  Before I became a buckeye, I was a student at Ursuline Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio.  While in high school, I swam, played water polo, life-guarded, taught swim lessons, and spent the majority of my time in or around the pool.  I have spent a considerable amount of time working with kids ages 3-6 at my swim club and helping them learn to be competitive swimmers.  I began swimming when I was four-years-old, and I really enjoyed being in the seasoned swimmer and role model for younger swimmers in recent years.  It has been a great opportunity to combine two things I love: working with kids and being around water.

When I wasn’t in the pool, I was a member of student council at Ursuline, where I found my niche representing others.  Inspired by the loss of a gay family member to AIDS, I took my love of leadership and co-created a club called Spectrum.  Spectrum is meant to bring awareness to LBGTQ+ issues and as serve as a safe place for people to discuss issues regarding sexual orientation, gender, and identity.  Starting a club in support of nontraditional families and relationships in a Catholic school was a challenge by definition.  Every step of the way was incredibly treacherous, and there was a constant fear of agitating the school’s board of directors, the Cincinnati Archdiocese, the Ursuline sisters who founded the school, and the schools teachers, students, and families.  Through the cloud of worry, we got our club approved by both the president and principal of the school.  It is the first club of its kind to be started in an Ohio Catholic school, and through it Ursuline is setting an example of how to love and accept others.  I am extremely proud of the changes in the community that have already come from it.

In addition to being a representative for others, math is another passion of mine.  I graduated from high school with five math credits under my belt, and my love of math is what motivated me to become a member of the STEM EE Scholars Program.  The program’s title stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Engagement and Exploration.  Although my specialization on fits into the math part of STEM, I have enjoyed learning more about fields I’ve spent significantly less time studying, such as engineering, medicine, and other sciences.  Since I won’t be taking many science classes as a business major, I look forward to the well-rounded education I am receiving from my peers.  STEM not only gives me the opportunity to learn more about things outside my specialization, it also gives me a chance to make friends outside of my specialization.  Without having lived on the STEM floor, I wouldn’t have the opportunity to meet premed, science, and engineering majors.  While I find what they do fascinating, my love of math is the reason I am majoring in accounting and finance.  I look forward to having a career where I can work  with numbers every day, hopefully in an environment similar to STEM where I can meet more people with different specializations than me.

For a long time I had no idea what I wanted to study.  I knew I loved numbers, but science just wasn’t my forte.  I really like writing and research, but I didn’t want to spend all hours of they day behind a computer screen typing.  I’m also very interested in politics, which led me to develop a very close relationship with my high school American history and government teacher, Ms. Michele Walters.  She practiced as a lawyer for quite some time before deciding to teach at my high school.  It was she who first suggested I consider getting into law, and I’m very grateful for her role in helping me figure out what I want to do with my life.  So to combine my love of numbers and my love of representation, I’m planning to earn a law degree.  This would open up numerous opportunities for me, including corporate law and government positions.  I plan on living in Cincinnati when I am finished with school in order to stay close to my family and to the numerous companies that operate in Cincinnati, such as Proctor & Gamble, Great American, and (my personal favorite) the Cincinnati Bengals.  Working for a big company in Cincinnati is along way away, so for right now, I’m just happy being a buckeye.

 

Strengths Finder Analysis

The summer before my freshman year of college I had the unique opportunity to attend the First Year Experience Leadership Collaborative.  The most meaningful part of the conference was our evaluation of strengths, what ours were, and how we could use them to excel.  My top five strengths (in order) are competition, focus, developer, individualization, and woo.  My whole life I have felt competition as a driving force in my life.  I am constantly striving to be the best in school, work, other activities.  Competition go hand in hand in the sense that I am always intently focused on winning and being the best.  My other three strengths (developer, individualization, and woo) are all fairly similar.  As a person possessing the developer strength, I am always looking for the potential in people.  Even though I want to be the best, seeing other people succeed makes me just as happy.  My individualization strength is a manifestation of my love for getting to know people on a deeper level.  Put these two things together with woo (Winning Others Over) and you have me: a person who lives for building and maintaining connections with other people.  As a business major, I will be thrust into a world where my job is to connect with people.  I look forward to using my strengths to get to know people and work with them.  I’ve also decided to make competition my job and become a lawyer.  Becoming a lawyer will give me the opportunity compete in a court room on a regular basis.  Law has always appealed to me, and I believe I will do well in it because I hate to lose and I’m good at winning others over.  By using all five of my strengths, I know I can succeed in the corporate law world.

Welcome to my Honors & Scholars e-Portfolio

Hello and welcome to my E-Portfolio! My name is Madison, and I am a first year student in The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Buiness. I am currently specializing in accounting and finance and planning to attend law school. I am also a member of the STEM EE Scholars Program here at OSU.  While I am originally from Cincinnati, I am enjoying my new home and look forward to seeing all Ohio State and Columbus have to offer. Go bucks!

Year in Review

Before I moved into Taylor Tower, I spent hours combing through lists of student organizations and making notes of all the clubs I wanted to be a part of during my time at Ohio State. My list was almost a page long, and everything Ohio State had to offer seemed more enticing than the last. Over the past year, I had the opportunity to be a part of three major organizations/groups at The Ohio State University outside of my classes: STEM Exploration & Engagment Scholars, Club Water Polo, and my job as a lifeguard at The McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion.  I love the people I met in each organization, and I truly valued the things I learned from each group.  Water polo was a great way to unwind, I made friends I know will last a lifetime, and I got to help my team raise over $11,000 for The Epilepsy Foundation.  In STEM, I was exposed to people from majors totally different than my own, and I was introduced to different careers I had never considered, something I greatly appreciated seeing as I wasn’t 100% sure of my major. At McCorkle, I learned how to work with a massive group of people, how to run major events (Division I swim & dive meets, Rec Sports events, etc), and found friends in my coworkers.  All of this was great, but it was a little much.  I lost contact with some of my friends from home, and my grades showed that I was struggling to keep up with everything going on.  I made the tough decision to put off my job at McCorkle until my junior year so that I could devote more time to my two-year Scholars program.  My boss was incredibly understanding, and agreed that graduating with Scholars was the most important thing.

This was an incredibly hard decision, and required lots of long phone calls with my parents and heart-to-hearts with teammates, coworkers, and fellow Scholars students.  In hindsight, I’m grateful for what the experience has taught me. In admitting that I was in over my head, I learned to ask for help and utilize the resources around me.  I also did a lot of soul searching and really evaluated what mattered most to me.  Those things are my health, well being, and grades.  I couldn’t give up water polo for the sake of physical health and mental health; I wouldn’t be able to go to classes unless I was physically and mentally well enough to do so.  Although my job and my Scholars program are both important to me, I can work any of my four years at Ohio State, but I can only be in my Scholars program for my first two years.  In the end, the stars aligned, and I knew what I needed to do to become a more successful student.

Before this year, I was planning my life as if there were a hundred hours in every day.  While I’d like to think I can be anything I want to be, I know now that I can’t be everywhere at once.  This year serves as a valuable lesson for me in humility, time management, and open mindedness. With a more realistic schedule, I can’t wait to see where next year takes me!