G.O.A.L.S.

The University Honors & Scholars Center at The Ohio State University serves high-ability, motivated undergraduate students. While embracing diversity in both ideas and people, the Center fosters purposeful learning communities that enhance students’ academic and social experiences. The Center facilitates impactful, rigorous, and unique opportunities that further student success and involvement in our G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement.

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.