Global Awareness
The first goal I hope to complete is to get a better understanding of global awareness for my own personal benefit and to teach the people around me. Traveling led me to became fascinated with the people and the culture of places I visited. My ultimate goal in this respect would be to participate in a semester abroad, where I would spend an entire semester getting involved and falling in love with culture of the country. An example of an organization that does exchange programs, like I described would be the Rotary youth exchange. Below is a link to their website.
https://www.rotary.org/en/get-involved/exchange-ideas/youth-exchanges
Original Inquiry
The second goal which holds my interest is original inquiry. Getting involved is very important to gain knowledge you would not necessarily receive in class. This semester, and hopefully many semesters to come, I joined the Under Water Robotics Team here at OSU. The team is made of up many engineering students from many different majors coming together to create a completely autonomous underwater robot from scratch. We meet several times each week to discuss ideas and research material for the sub. After being on the team for only a couple weeks I have already learned new skills and made new friends. Below is a link to their website.
http://underwaterrov.org.ohio-state.edu/