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G.O.A.L.S.
Academic Enrichment
My number one goal here at OSU is my academic success. I am in college to improve my brain power and learn about applicable subjects for my future career. I am typically very on path with my goals, however, some things on campus have proved to make studies a little more difficult. Examples of these include video games, social events, naps, and pure laziness. I am still very confident I can overcome these nay-sayers and make it through OSU’s engineering program with flying colors if I put my mind to it.
Leadership Development
I’m not sure if it’s necessarily leadership I want to develop as much as self responsibility. I’ve always been a pretty natural born leader since I was young, probably credited mostly to sports, but the one aspect of leadership that has always seemed to evade my grasp is taking control of my own life. College is very much about learning to live on my own for me as I have never been much of a self reliant person. I’m hoping to increase my time management, motivation, responsibility, and discipline while here to prepare myself for the real world.
Career
Over the course of my first semester in the electrical and computer engineering major, I have learned many valuable skills that could be applied to my future career. Once graduated, my dream job is to work for a gaming console company designing and building hardware. In my fundamental engineering course, we learned basic programming and coding. Obviously there is direct correlation between the two. I have also developed problem solving and teamwork applicable skills from this course through various group work and challenging engineering problems. In my physics and calculus classes, I learned valuable math and science skills as well as even more problem solving techniques. All in all, I believe my first semester was a great beginning to my progress towards engineering.
Artifacts
Sugarcane Based Ethanol Presentation
For our scholars seminar group presentation, we researched sugarcane based ethanol. It is essentially bio-fuel made from fermenting sugarcane that is often combined with gasoline to reduce the use of fossil fuels. We decided to research this because it is one of the renewable energy sources that is actually being used and applied on a wide scale. It is a very prominent energy source for car based transportation in Brazil and is slowly creeping into other countries. There is a very large future in the field of sugarcane based ethanol, but its research depends heavily on crude oil prices (gas prices go up, research goes up). In the near future, it is expected to become even more efficient, require less land, and become more widely available in India.
About Me
Hi! My name is Connor Warholic, and I am a first year student at THE Ohio State University. I am majoring in electrical and computer engineering. I come from a family of five: me, my two younger brothers, and my parents (and my dog.) I grew up in 
Ohio in a suburb of Akron called Wadsworth. I attended Wadsworth High School for four years and played soccer for the school all four years. I love all Cleveland sports teams and also love playing just about any sport you can think of. I am an avid gamer and I hold my Xbox closer to my heart than most people. While I love my video games, I also thrive on sunlight and being outdoors. In the summer I am usually out hiking, fishing, or rock climbing. In the winter, I enjoy snowboarding, although it is very limited in Ohio. I decided to attend OSU due to their very impressive engineering program, the in state tuition, the proximity to home (too far for my parents to pop in unexpectedly, close enough to go home for a weekend), and because I was born and raised a Buckeye.