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Hello! First, thank you for taking some time to learn a little about me. 🙂 My name is Whitney, and I’m a fourth-year undergraduate from Springfield, Ohio. I currently double-major in History and French and minor in Linguistics. I love…

Between France & Morocco: Marrakech, Rabat, Fez, & Casablanca

I wasn’t sure what to expect from Morocco, honestly. All I had ever learned about it was that it was a Muslim country, people spoke Arabic, Berber, and French, and that it was a former French colony. I came to…

European Union, French, & Provence-sur-Alpes flags at Aix's HĂ´tel de Ville

Though I had somewhat adjusted to France by the second week, I was more nervous to get to Aix-en-Provence. In Aix, I was staying with a host family whom I had emailed only days prior to arriving. Though my family…

O-H-I-O in front of the History of Immigration Museum (Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration)

After years of learning about France and its splendor, I’ve finally made it. Our group arrived at 5am. It was 11pm back home, and we had been traveling for about 16 hours by that point. We were all tired, and…

Global Awareness To develop my Global Awareness, I have lived on an international floor, participated in extracurriculars where I met students from all over the world, I studied abroad and am currently planning to study abroad next spring. My freshman…

Giving a presentation, facing my fear of public speaking

This is only my second year of college, yet I can hardly remember anything from my first year. It might just be too embarrassing and too awkward and best forgotten. I reread the journal I kept last year–I brought it…

When I first learned I was going to be a research assistant, I was beyond excited. I was only a couple months into my freshman year, and I was already receiving an opportunity to do research! During the first semester,…

OSU group in front of Chateau Frontenac, a historic and famous hotel

This summer I decided to do what many freshmen couldn’t imagine doing after their first year of college: I studied abroad. Okay, so it’s not that dramatic, but this is an incredibly significant event in my life. Since I was…

A Caring Experience

My second semester as Buckeye, I joined an organization called Cultural Ambassadors for Residential Enrichment. Because this name is a mouthful, it was shortened to CARE. Like me, this program was new to OSU. When I joined, I thought I…

Global Awareness Out of all the GOALS, global awareness is the one in which I’m involved most right now. I live in the International House learning community and am involved with the English Conversation Partners (ECP) Program. Because of my…