Sarah Stradling is a history major working towards her Bachelor’s Degree with honors research distinction at the Ohio State University. She is majoring in History and International Studies with minors in German and Philosophy. Here on campus she combines her interests in politics and history by serving on the Executive Board of Model Arab League and participating in the Collegiate Council on World Affairs. She also serves on a committee for her learning community, the John Glenn Civic Leadership Community, which develops and runs policy simulations for her peers. One of her other main interests is linguistics, and she keeps up with German and Spanish through conversation tables and the German Club on campus. While Sarah is unsure of her postgraduate plans, here at Ohio State she wants to prepare for graduate level education by writing an honors thesis in the discipline of History. She hopes to conduct research abroad in Germany in the next few years. Although she has done some archival work in the past, including some translation between German and English and extensive uses of online databases, she is always looking for new opportunities to gain more research experience in hopes of aiding her own original work in the future.