Month: August 2018

Year in Review

 

Freshman year:

After this semester i realized how busy the college life is. It is kind of surprising to me that i actually enjoyed the busy work and the different organizations i am in. I love the feeling that i have something to accomplish each day, and i feel like i am not wasting any of my time on something that is not meaningful to me. I struggled a little bit with picking a major that i like, but i finally decided on business major. I feel like I’m am a person who is good at communication and i love the econ class i am taking this semester. This seems like a good route to me and hopefully I can decide on my specialization later on. Overall, this semester is busy but fulfilling. I have learned a lot but also made many good friends. I hope everything goes well for next semester.

Sophomore year:

This semester ended quickly and not as expected due to the pandemic, and I suddenly felt the sadness. I actually realize my college life is already half way through, and I really did enjoyed the busy but fun college life. I was very lost in my first year of college because I was undecided in major, and I felt like I didn’t belonged to any part of the school. This year I was finalized in two majors actually, and it was Accounting and psychology. The two majors sounded entirely different, but I saw the connection in between. Accounting being a business major requires large about of networking and talking, and psychology is learning about how people behave whether in talking or thinking. If business is the phone itself, I will consider psychology being the plug that connects to the phone. The two majors balance nicely with each other and psychology can still continues my interest in science. Being determined in my major I feel a lot more confident and belonged this year, but also more stress. This year I struggled a lot with trying to find internship opportunities and interviewing in many different position. I realize there is no short cuts into any job or major, there will always be more to learn. I also learned to not be afraid to rejection because rejection is the door to more opportunities. I am still considering many things after college this year such as going to get a master or try to find a job first. I have many ideas popping through my head, but I hope next year I can plan on a more clear path for myself after college. Overall, it is a stressful year and also a year with more confidence.

G.O.A.L.S.

For global awareness and leadership development I am planning to achieve both of them through the organization that i am in which is called CSSS. This is a Chinese students organization. Through the organization I can develop my leadership ability by organizing events and contacting companies for internships. I can also come up with activities and set up activities. I am the e-board for CSSS public relation department, and this has allowed me to develop many useful skills in engaging others and being a responsible leader.

This is also global awareness becasue the club is very heavily influenced by Chinese culture, and our job is to promote our culture to other non-Chinese students. We set up a stand couple weeks ago at RECESS, and we taught many students to write Chinese. That was a memorable and fun experience for me, and I would love to do something similar in the future. In my sophomore year I lead a group in the organization to organize an event that is called the international student panel for business fraternities. This has never happened before, and the opportunity allowed many international students to truly understand what fraternity is.

To develop Original inquiry I want to explore and asking myself questions. I need to know what I truly want in my career in the future, and what I want to achieve in life. I created this website as a platform for myself to explore my interests and share ideas in the public. I want to an original person, and also a person who is always questioning herself about new thinkings and ideas.

For academic enrichment, I am planning to join a few more student organizations that are more academic based, so I can developed more skills and knowledge in different areas. I want to take classes that are challenging and interesting to me, and I don’t want to be trapped in the comfort zone.

For service engagement, i am thinking about doing volunteer at hospitals or schools. I am also part of the buckeyethon event on campus. This is a fundraising event for kids who have pediatric cancer, and I have been participated in a consecutive 2 years. In my student organization, we also encourage many service engagement such as making blanket and doing food fundraising for those in need.

Career

My career goal is work in a fashion industry company for their financial or public relation department. I am currently accepting and psychology major, and this also means I want to get CPA certified in the future. I am considering between going to work at an accounting firm right after work or going for a master. For master, I have not be determined in what type, but I am leaning towards business law of some sorts. I know if I want to go into a fashion industry I will have to have many job experiences or internships, and I will need to show the company the artsy side of me to prove I am a good fit. I need to do a lot more research in this career, and this is surely not a one step type of goal.

Activities:

Ted talk:

I went to the Ted talk about “Ancient DNA”. The event was a small discussion, and we had arguments about whether to modify the DNA to create better species or just let the nature do its own thing. It was very fun to hear differnt perspectives from differnt students, and I enjoyed the whole process. I also like the Ted talk because it brought up something that I have never thought about before, and it also reminds me of one of my favorite movie”Jurassic Park”. Below is a picture of the ted talk we watched during the event. Going to to the event made me realize biology and science might not be something that I really want to pursue in the future.

 

Job at Office of International Affair:

I worked as front desk for the office for almost two years, and last summer I also worked as an orientation leader. The job experience at the office made me realize how much I enjoy talking with others and also helping others to solve problems when there might be a language barrier. I love the experience of sharing my cultures with others, and I also learned many cultures and traditions from others. This was an exotic experience for me, and it made me realize I would probably love to do a job that will require a lot of group work and also conversational based. This made me realized that business major could be a good fit for me.

 

Resume:resume

Artifacts: Letter from Grandpa

One artifact that is very important in my life is a letter that my grandpa gave before i left Shanghai. I moved to U.S. at the age of eleven, and this letter was my grandpa’s last gift for me before i departure from the Shanghai’s airport. The letter was wrinkled and plain. However, the meaning of the letter is undeniably meaningful. This letter is important to me becasue it taught  me a lesson to never give up and study harder for yourself and not for others. My grandparents told me in the letter to adapt to the new environment and study harder than before. It also said i need to grow up more like an adult since now i will be living with my parents. I suddenly realized i need to change my way of thinking and behaving after reading this letter. It suprised me at first that my grandpa wrote all of this in the letter because he never says anything like that before. However, it made me want to be a better person and accomplish my goals in life. I want to help those people that I can and I want to be a person that he could be proud of.

 

About Me

 

My name is Elaina Yang, and I am accounting and psychology double majoring. I enjoy doing a lot of things, and I have interests in science, business, arts, fashion, and music. I hope at OSU I can find a career that I am truely passionate about, and I will work hard toward my goal. Something that is special about me is that I am very multicultural, because I was borned in Shanghai but moved to America at the age of 11. As a result, my first language is Chinese and I picked up English after I moved to America. My biggest passion includes playing guitar, singing and drawing. Please let me know if you also enjoyed those activities!

Hopefully you guys have learned a little bit about me, thank you.

If you want to know more about me as a person please go click on my website that is listed in artifacts tab also:

https://elainayang25.wixsite.com/website