G.O.A.L.S.

The University Honors & Scholars Center at The Ohio State University serves high-ability, motivated undergraduate students. While embracing diversity in both ideas and people, the Center fosters purposeful learning communities that enhance students’ academic and social experiences. The Center facilitates impactful, rigorous, and unique opportunities that further student success and involvement in our G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement.

G.O.A.L.S.

Currently, I am an active member of the French Club at OSU as well as JSA (the Japanese Student Association). This not only lets me interact with peers my age pursuing different majors as me but also lets me reconnect to my parents’ culture at a deeper level. Later this year, I plan to join the Doctors Without Borders Sri Lanka 2020 trip, joining 20 other premed students on a clinical trip to this remote country. There I would not only learn about the customs and traditions of a country I had previously never really experienced but also experience first-hand how medicine is done in a country other than the US.

Although I haven’t done much original research (yet) at OSU so far, in high school I had to write many research papers for IB. The largest one was a thirty-five-page original math paper called “Determining the Rotation and Symmetric Groups of Sonobe Polyhedra”, which explored the symmetry groups of a specific set of platonic solids modelable by origami, and how these groups can be expressed in many different areas of math, including set theory, geometry, and linear algebra. The spring of my freshman year, I plan on doing undergraduate research, in order to not only gain much-needed laboratory experience but also hopefully find research topics I find engrossing enough to potentially research in the future.

I plan on going to medical school in the future to become a physician, so as of right now I’m a biochem major on the premed track with a potential math double major. I chose to major in biochem after taking gen chem 2 at OSU through my high school’s college credit plus program, which made me realize how much I loved chemistry. I’m currently taking Honors O Chem, Calc 3, and Physics 1250 and potentially will take biochem next semester. This rigorous selection of classes will not just prepare me for the rigor of med school but will teach me important organizational and study skills that will follow me my entire life.

Currently, I’m involved with cultural student organizations such as the French Club and Japanese Club, as well as more major-related ones such as Biochem club and Doctors Without Borders. In the future, I hope to narrow this list down to a couple of organizations I’m very committed and involved in, hopefully getting involved in leadership within these organizations. I’m naturally shy and reserved, but I hope that being part of organizations that I’m passionate about will help me get out of my shell and become better at taking the role of a leader.

In terms of service, I’m currently involved with TAASC, an organization that teaches disabled people to kayak, as well as Doctors Without Borders that fundraises for the parent organization as well as providing free clinics in remote countries that desperately need the added medical help.