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Author: Loryn Wright
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 guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. 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 guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. 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 guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
Artifacts
[Artifacts are the items you consider to be representative of your academic interests and achievements. For each entry, include both an artifact and a detailed annotation. An annotation includes both a description of the artifact and a reflection on why it is important to you, what you learned, and what it means for your next steps. For more guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
About Me
I am Loryn Wright, and I am a first-year student at the Ohio State University, studying Animal Science. I grew up in Defiance, Ohio (about an hour south of Toledo) with my mom, dad, and sister, Haleigh (I’ve attached a photo of us, along with pictures of my friends and me). I have raised poultry to show at the county fair for the last six years through 4-H and FFA. My experiences in livestock production have led me to want to attend vet school to become a poultry or large animal veterinarian. I am an avid weightlifter, and I am on the Novice Women’s Rowing team here at OSU. I also enjoy traveling, knitting, the Cleveland Indians (see below), and Calculus. Coming to Ohio State, I chose to be a part of the Environment and Natural Resources Scholar Program because of my interest in agriculture and how important the connection between sustainable agriculture and the environment is. I am specifically focused on using my time here on understanding the proper processes that should be taken place in livestock production to minimize the global footprint the industry leaves (such as rangeland management, proper manure disposal or conversion, etc). I understand that many people find sustainability in ag to be simply be locally sourcing produce and products, but most family/local farms are contracted with bigger companies anyway. What I want to focus on is reforming the large scale, networked companies and finding new ways to make these companies themselves more sustainable, mainly through the way they transport goods and (in livestock production) dispose of animal waste. I love to participate in outdoor recreation, especially activities like kayaking, rock climbing, or hiking. I love activities that are fun in themselves but have a focus in nature as well. I hope to use the ENR Scholars program to better the OSU community and the agriculture industry as a whole, and to be able to bring back the ideas and concepts that I will learn back to my hometown. I also hope to become involved with the Poultry Science Club and Faith & Fitness here at Ohio State because both organizations fit my interests in poultry science, exercise, and faith. Go Bucks!
