About Me

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BACKGROUND

Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio

HS Education: St. Edward High School

Current Status: Undergraduate and ICE Scholar

Planned Major: Business Finance

Possible Minors: Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Data and Analytics

 

CURRENT ASPIRATIONS

The field of entrepreneurship is filled to the brim with people who are obsessed with one single burning passion: making money in the shortest amount of time and cashing out.   This simple fact became apparent to me after involvement in some entrepreneurial projects in high school where I met successful business men who evaluated my ovulated net worth of a person at first glance.

I aspire to be a type of successful that’s not defined the number of zeroes in my checking account but instead defined by the amount of good I do in the world.  How I will do that remains a question I have yet to answer.  Until the right opportunity presents itself, the project starts with being successful as a student and networking to find people with similar aspirations and to grow from there.

 

ME AS A LEARNER

Some unique interests I have are a love of being out in nature, exploring the art based communities, and playing the cello.  The most meaningful experience I had in high school was spending the last three years volunteering as  a camp counselor for an MDA camp one week during the summer.  There I learned to be responsible for another person and built meaningful relationships that continue to grow every year.

For me, like everybody, high school was filled with points of major success and major failure.  I acted as editor in chief for my high school newspaper, The Edsman, where I did everything from facilitating meetings to digital layout to editing articles.  However, for the better part of my junior and senior year, I worked on forming a non-profit through an entrepreneurship program set up at our school.  This project, called Lend to Grow, was supposed to connect people to small business owners in third world countries and give them an opportunity to invest small amounts in these people. After the low interest loan was paid back, the initial investor, who could be absolutely anyone, would have the chance to repay the loan.  Though I tried to make the project work, the eventual result was shoving a square brick in a circular hole, and by the end of high school I had nothing to show.  But from this failure, I learned how to present and convince people of an idea that seemed impractical and lacking in monetary gain (in that it had no $ attached to it).  Though I came here with little knowledge in the field I want to enter, the skills I developed in communication and organization have already served me well in this new setting.

Year in Review

[ “Year in Review”  is where you should reflect on the past year and show how you have evolved as a person and as a student.  You may want to focus on your growth in a particular area (as a leader, scholar, researcher, etc.) or you may want to talk about your overall experience over the past year.  For more information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

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 information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. 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 information, go to: http://honors-scholars.osu.edu/e-portfolio. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]

Artifacts

BMCThis artifact is a Business Model Canvas from a group project for my scholars class.  Above is the fourth iteration of the canvas for our business idea, Art House, a community experiment in which artists would live and work together during their senior year at OSU and pay for equipment and services to take their abilities to the next level.   This iteration is far more developed than the original but still well far away from being an implementable idea.  For now, I’m choosing to put the idea aside due to complications with taking it further but it was at least fun to think and talk about with my classmates and we definitely all grew as a result of the project.