Top 9 things I didn’t do until senior year that I wish I’d done sooner
The title says it all. Some of the many things I didn’t do until my last year of college that I don’t understand why I didn’t do earlier: Gateway D-Tix: Ohio State has a program called Discount Tickets, or D-Tix. The most powerful D-Tix of them all is the Gateway Film Center. For a mere $3, you can get a voucher for a ticket at […]
Read moreAsk a Senior: Was Ohio State the Right Place?
Every time my mom drove me home freshman year, she asked me, “Do you think Ohio State was the right place for you to go?” My reply was always something along the lines of, “I like it at Ohio State, but I don’t know if it means that I wouldn’t be happy anywhere else.” I graduated from Ohio State this May. After graduation, my mom asked […]
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“halp” pt. 2: You’re never gonna keep me down
In part I, I talked about feeling dumb in college. In this post, we’re going a step further: feeling like you want to quit. Classes are hard. Sometimes being incapable of starting any of your 5 homework problems without help from friends or TAs, not getting A’s in any of the classes in your major, or realizing that you’re happy about walking out of an exam […]
Read more“halp” pt. 1: I get knocked down/But I get up again
Now that I’m a senior, I feel like I can go around handing out advice. Here’s something I wish I had learned earlier: ask dumb questions. Yeah, ask dumb questions. No matter how smart you are in high school, you’ll feel dumb in college at some point*. I went from being the high-honors, 5-on-all-the-AP-exams girl to getting two Cs in a row in math classes […]
Read moreStrangers in Ohio
The first week I spent at Ohio State was one of the worst weeks of my life. A couple days after moving in, I cried myself to sleep because I didn’t know anyone since I was from out of state, I was experiencing extreme culture shock, I didn’t know why it took so much effort to make new friends, and I didn’t know how […]
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THE Denman
Yes, we are THE Ohio State University and our annual undergraduate research forum is called THE Denman. After listening to a lot of speeches, I learned that long ago, in its very beginnings, the annual Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum was known as the “Undergraduate Research Forum.” However, after a few years, students began referring to it as “The […]
Read moreBrittany In Europe, Part XIV: Not In Europe Anymore
Hiya! Remember me? Yeah, I find it hard to remember me too. It has been a jam-packed half a semester. Three chem classes will do that to ya. So what happened to me? How did my internship end? Did I successfully return to the United States, or did I decide I liked it so much that I enrolled in a German university?! (the […]
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Brittany in Europe, Part XIII: Lab Update
For my very last weekend in Germany **sob**, I got to slow down and stay in Kiel. It was so nice to relax a little and just stay at home (even though I was in the office most of the time). I thought I’d give you a update from the lab and show you what I’ve really been doing in Germany for 8 9 12 […]
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