Mid-Ohio Foodbank Volunteering

I volunteered at the Mid-Ohio Foodbank with some of my sorority sisters and it is an awesome experience every time I go there. On Thursdays it is open to the public so anyone can come between 4-6 and help out. I would recommend it to everyone. There is music and the workers there are amazingly nice and they tell you how many boxes of food you have packaged. These boxes are given to low-income families. It makes you feel more of a connection to the community because you physically put together a box that will go to a family in need.

Taste of OSU

I also attended Taste of OSU earlier this year. I am a third year and have gone to this event all three years I have been at Ohio State. It's such a unique experience and I love seeing and tasting all the different foods. It makes you definitely appreciate food more because you don't really realize how much it has to do with culture and family. It is so much more than a way to feed your hunger.

Jane Goodall

I attended the event with Jane Goodall and it was amazing. I used to be obsessed with monkeys and even did a report on Jane Goodall and wanted to be her when I grew up. It was definitely an honor to hear her speak in person and she seems like such a genuine person. She is a unique and inspiring person who has offered a great deal to anthropological research. I liked the photos that she had because it made it more real.

Humanities Flag Football!!!

I want start this out by thanking everyone who played this year for the Humanities Scholars.  Our team this year had the best record of the past Humanities (or at least in the past three years), since we actually won games and made the playoffs (and if we won the playoff game, we would have been in the final game, because the other team forfeited).  I am very glad that we did not have to forfeit any games this year (unlike my Freshman year) and that we actually got wins (last year we got blown out all the time).  I have great hopes for my Senior year next year.  Hopefully we can build off of next year and maybe win a playoff game.  We just need to retain players from this year and also recruit new players from the incoming Freshman class.

Comic Book Series: Cartoon Library Tour

On September 25, 2765 AUC (that is 2012 in the Roman calendar), we visited the Cartoon Library by the Wexner Center.  While I had already been there (catching up on the Spider-man comics, since I never really read the comics as a kid), it was still an interesting tour.  I thought the history about the Center's collection and in comics was interesting, especially about the one newspaper strip that had countless rage mail about the family dog dying in the comic.  I should have asked them if they had any hate mail that was sent to Marvel after they split Spider-man and Mary Jane up.  If there was hate mail about the family dog dying, I would hate to see how harsh the mail was that was sent to Marvel because of the Neighborhood Friendly Web-Slinger.

Mentor Events

Due to a ridiculous amount of time conflicts, the only events I was really able to participate in this semester ended up being the mentor events, which I consider pretty important, since I'm a mentor.
The first event, the scavenger hunt, was kind of a bust because we didn't have any mentees show up, but we did it anyway to get those points in.
The second event, campus hide and seek, was a little better when we had one mentee show up, but it was nice because we got to chat with her and get to know her better and talk about how her semester is going and how she likes college life, and things like that.
Our mentees are involved in loads of different activities, from Women's Glee Club to jobs all over campus, so it's difficult to get them all together at once.  But we have had the opportunity to get dinner with various combinations of the four of them throughout the semester, so we've been able to stay caught up with their lives.

Treat the Hungry

This was my first year participating in our main service event, Treat the Hungry. I was very happily surprised with the number of people who showed up. With so many groups, we were able to get around the neighborhood quickly and efficiently. The weather wasn't that bad or cold, which was great. My group and I had a great time, and everyone we met was very friendly and helpful. People were very generous in their donations and a lot of people even had cans ready for us when we arrived. Overall, this was a great event and I was very proud to be a part of this Humanities Scholars tradition.