Hello! I am Paul, and welcome to my Honors & Scholars e-Portfolio! Here you can find more about myself, my passions and my goals. Feel free to look around!
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
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Artifacts
Eagle Scout – As a Cub Scout, I fell in love with camping and the outdoors, so when I became a Boy Scout I expected to have fun and make a lot of great memories. Now, I did do all of those things, but along the way, I gained so much more from Boy Scouts than I could ever imagine. Scouting puts an emphasis on a peer leadership. I had many opportunities to lead others around me, and it culminated during my Eagle Scout Project where I led a book and stuffed animal drive to create a lending library for the Goodwill Easter Seals Child Development Center. Even after obtaining the Eagle rank, I continued to be active within my troop and to give back to the organization that given me so much.
MATLAB – Pictured above is the Command Window to MATLAB, the program I have learned to use in my Fundamentals of Engineering class this semester. It may not seem like much, but the blank page represents the many possibilities within programming. When I first experienced coding in high school, it did not appeal to me. At the time, I did not fully grasp its potential. Now in college, as I use MATLAB more, I have discovered how much enjoy programming and see so many more of its uses. This semester, my programming experience culminated in the writing of a complete code to run a railroad crossing on a model train track. While some of the debugging may have been frustrating, finishing with a working product was extremely satisfying.
About Me
Hello, my name is Paul Williger, and I am a first year Chemical Engineering student at The Ohio State University. Last June, I graduated from Springboro High School in Springboro, Ohio. While in high school, I ran track and cross country and participated in many extracurricular activities, including robotics club and academic team. I am also an Eagle Scout and enjoy camping and being outdoors. As an Ohio State student, I look forward to pursuing exciting co-op opportunities and using my skills from the classroom to tackle real world problems.
Top 5 Strengths:
- Harmony
- Analytical
- Consistency
- Achiever
- Relator