Month: September 2020

About Me

Hi, my name is Josh Smith and I am a first-year student at The Ohio State University majoring in Finance with a minor in Music, Media, and Enterprise. I am from Mason, Ohio outside of Cincinnati and I attended William Mason High School. At WMHS I was involved in marching band and played trombone. I was also a member of a student organization called SIBS (Students Involving and Befriending Students) where we participated in service events and mentored a group of freshmen throughout their first year of high school to make that transition from middle school to high school as smooth as possible.

 

At Ohio State, I am a member of the Mount Leadership Society Scholars program. I am also involved with some other student organizations at Ohio State such as TPEG (Theme Park Engineering Group), MIC (Music Industry Club), and ABS (The Association for the Business of Sports). Down the road, I would love to be involved in a business fraternity! I have a huge passion for everything in the entertainment industry whether that be music, amusement parks, film/TV, or sports. After Ohio State, I would love to work in this industry with my top choice being focused on music. I would love to work in music management for either a record label, talent agency, or even an artist/group!

Year in Review

My first year as a student has been a exciting roller coaster of a journey! All the way from transitioning to college and meeting new friends to learning how to do all of this with COVID-19 happening. There is a lot that I have learned at Ohio State this year. The biggest thing I was involved with at OSU was being a Mount Scholar. In this program, not only did I meet some of my closest friends, but I also learned so many valuable lessons to leadership. In Mount Scholars, my biggest task was being a Meeting Zest Coordinator for Team Global Legacy Week. Legacy Week is a several month long event in which scholars work with local Columbus agencies to provide help and create a service project from the ground up.

 

My role as a Meeting Zest Coordinator was to lead 15 other Mount Scholars on my team, which was Team Global. Team Global worked with Columbus agencies that have an impact not only here in Ohio, but all throughout the world. For our service projects, we worked with two agencies. We worked with Community Refugee & Immigration Services (CRIS) as well as with an agency called Missing Maps. For CRIS, we worked to create cards of encouragement to students at local Columbus schools that are from families of immigrants and refugees. These cards were made to spread some positivity during the rough period of time through the COVID-19 pandemic. For Missing Maps, we worked online to map more underdeveloped areas of the world on a software similar to google earth. This works to help out agencies such as the Red Cross in the event of emergencies to provide help faster to these areas. Through leading Team Global for Legacy Week, I was able to learn not only about the impact that I can have on others by helping out, but I also learned how to properly lead a team to success!

G.O.A.L.S.

[ “G.O.A.L.S.” is a place where students write about how their planned, current, and future activities may fit into the Honors & Scholars G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement. For more guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.

  • Global Awareness: Students cultivate and develop their appreciation for diversity and each individual’s unique differences. For example, consider course work, study abroad, involvement in cultural organizations or activities, etc.
  • Original Inquiry: Honors & Scholars students understand the research process by engaging in experiences ranging from in-class scholarly endeavors to creative inquiry projects to independent experiences with top researchers across campus and in the global community. For example, consider research, creative productions or performances, advanced course work, etc.
  • Academic Enrichment: Honors & Scholars students pursue academic excellence through rigorous curricular experiences beyond the university norm both in and out of the classroom.
  • Leadership Development: Honors & Scholars students develop leadership skills that can be demonstrated in the classroom, in the community, in their co-curricular activities, and in their future roles in society.
  • Service Engagement: Honors & Scholars students commit to service to the community.]

Career

[“Career” is where you can collect information about your experiences and skills that will apply to your future career.  Like your resume, this is information that will evolve over time and should be continually updated.  For more guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

Artifacts

At the beginning of the school year, Ohio State gave freshman the unique opportunity to walk across the field of the historic Ohio Stadium. Being a new member to the Mount Scholars program, this was a perfect opportunity to have some fun with new friends. Myself and eight others in Mount took a trip down to the stadium and took some photos. The event brought so much joy to all of us and we were definitely smiling behind our masks! This was such a fun event especially since we won’t be able to watch a game in person this year. Walking across the field of Ohio Stadium brought me back to my passion for the entertainment industry and this showed me how sports can bring people happiness. There was nobody on that field that wasn’t having a blast whether they enjoyed football or not! I learned that sports brings joy into the world and it serves a bigger purpose than just competition! I would love to be involved with sports business down the road because exposing others to it allows them to have fun and brings out smiles to people’s faces!