This is my professional resume that I use for any positions that I’m applying for.
I’ve included some work and volunteer experience that I’ve accumulated over the past few years and some school activities that may be relevant to the position I might be applying for.
Finally, I’ve also listed my education, which I ‘ll be updating throughout my college career.
This semester, I was enrolled in the computer science programming course that I had to take as part of my major’s curriculum. One of the main weekly assignments we have is a project where we would be given a task to implement through a programming language. These were meant to be particularly difficult assignments with multiple steps to be completed over a few days.
Each week, I met with a few friends who also were students in the same computer science course and we would work together to complete the project, although we all did our own work and submitted the project individually.
These weekly meetings were helpful for me to complete each assignment, since we could discuss it together and share ideas and help one another. Once I started meeting with the same group, I noticed my average grade on each project increasing because I understood the material more thoroughly and was able to complete it more quickly.
The added benefit of meeting with friends is that we also could spend time together, which we previously had trouble doing due to our conflicting schedules and unaligned free time. Working together on the project was something I looked forward to each week and motivated me to stay focused on my work.
We would meet each Wednesday at Drackett Tower:
After my first semester at The Ohio State University, I have the opportunity to look back at some of the work I’ve done and reflect on my personal development. One the main projects that I’ve worked on is for my STEM Scholars survey class. I interviewed an upperclassman, a graduate student and a professor here at OSU about their experiences. I also discussed some of the topics of research that the professor I interviewed had published.
The upperclassman I interviewed was a friend that I had known from high school and gave me advice about how to adjust to college life. The graduate student I interviewed was the Teaching Assistant in my math class, so he was doing research about mathematics, which is a field that I’m interested in. I discussed the process of applying to graduate school with him because I’m interested in going to graduate school after I graduate, and the some of the research that he’d been working on to earn his degree. The professor I interviewed was a computer science professor, which is also a field that I’m interested in, who had done research in the cruise control systems in automobiles. He and I discussed the computer science major and some of the research that he had done.
This project helped talk to new people and gain information that I would not otherwise have if I hadn’t done this project. I learned about what the next few years will be like for me, and it helped me make decisions about the course I should take in the future.
About a week ago, I participated in the HackOHIO Hackathon, here at OSU. For 24 hours, I had the opportunity to engage in a programming challenge with a few of my friends. There were multiple different challenges, but ultimately, the opportunities to make something were only limited by our creativity and proficiency with software programming.
Since this was my first year, I was focused on the experience to learn something new and form a network with some of the companies that sponsored the event. I went with two friends of mine, who, like myself, had some programming experience, so we were able to make something together.
After brainstorming different ideas, we decided to make a program with multiple simple games and puzzles. One of us made a “Tamagotchi” program with a virtual pet that the player would feed and take care of. The other member of our group made a simple version of the video game “Snake”. I decided to make a word search with different groups of words based on a certain category.
We ended up not finishing in time, so we didn’t have our game judged. However, now that we have some experience with how the event works, we hope that in the future, we’ll have more success, as we’ll have more knowledge about programming.
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Over the past year, I’ve adjusted to a college academic based life by altering many different parts of my everyday routine. In the past, I’ve had my parents to always help me with anything that I needed, but now I mostly do things on my own. This includes making sure I attend classes, extracurriculars, and other events on time, making my own schedule, and planning my own meals.
On top of the shift to a more self driven personal life, I’ve also become more aware of my academic life. I have to make sure I have enough time each day to walk to and from class and do my homework and study afterwards. Since many of the classes I’ve been taking are simple introductory courses and GE courses, they’ve relatively simple, however, in the future, I expect them to be more difficult.
When I first started my first semester, I wasn’t sure what changes I would have to make and I also don’t currently remember what I expected at the time, but after my first year, I’m fairly happy with the way things have gone and I look forward to summer and the following school year.
In 2014, a 0.9 meter-wide meteor entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific; while this alone may be interesting, this particular meteor was unique because its origin was from a different solar system.
At the time that this meteor was observed, it didn’t seem very interesting; it was small and simply burned up. However, a recent interstellar meteor led scientists to believe that there could’ve been more foreign objects traveling from distant solar systems. This recent visitor, a 400-meter wide meteor, traveled in a particular path that differentiated it from typical meteors. It’s entrance and departure were at a sharp angle.
When astronomer Avi Loeb began to search through NASA’s past archives of meteors, he noticed there was one that followed a similar trajectory and behaved in a similar fashion to the current interstellar meteor: the small meteor from 2014, which is currently believed to be the first interstellar object to enter our atmosphere. This speed and manner in which the meteor traveled suggested that it was not bound by the Sun’s gravity.
Loeb has predicted that there could’ve potentially been other meteors and object from distant locations and there could be more in the future.
This discovery is interesting because scientists don’t currently know the conditions of this meteor’s place of origin. It could come from another solar system similar to ours or could even have existed in a star’s “habitable zone” – the area around the sun where the temperature is just right to let water – and life – exist. Scientists could examine the composition of the meteor before it burns up in the atmosphere, however, to accomplish this, they must know when the next one will appear.
Loeb predicted that there could’ve been hundreds of millions of interstellar visitors over the Earth’s lifetime, and predicted one to appear once every 10 years. If scientists could predict where and when another meteor from another solar system will appear, they could observe what the other solar system is composed of and could possibly find signs of life.
To read about the source and read further:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/2014-meteor-another-solar-system-oumuamua
In my first-year engineering course, I’ve been paired up with 3 other students to work with on labs, projects, and homework. Our group does work together in class and labs by helping each other and collaborating. We also meet outside of class to work on reports and team projects. This is less serious and we also have fun while we work.
When we meet outside of the classroom, we try to work as efficiently as possible, since we all have our own schedules. We all agree on a time and location a few days in advance. This usually involves the 2nd floor in Houston House, since this is where most of us live. We try to use the resources that we’ve been given, such as the iPads, where we can work collaboratively on the same document, and the rooms and workspaces in Houston House.
Through these meetings, I’ve learned the material in the class while also working with others on hands-on projects and work. Also, since this is less focused on work, our team bonds, so now we’re friends rather than simply classmates, working more efficiently as we’re better able to help each other and cover each other’s weaknesses.
Hi, my name is Abhishek Salandri.
I’m currently a first-year undergraduate student at The Ohio State University enrolled in the Computer Science and Engineering pre-major.
I hope to earn my undergraduate degree in 2022 in Computer Science and Engineering, or a similar field, and start an engineering career involved with robotics and computer programming.
I graduated from Thomas Worthington High School in Worthington, Columbus in 2018.
In my free time, I enjoy running, watching movies, and spending time with my friends.
I’ve played music for 6 years through my school’s music program. Now, I enjoy listening to and playing music casually.
