Ohio State’s learning communities give students a place to make friends and explore different learning activities; including, attending local field trips, making relationships with staff and professionals and participate in research and internship opportunities. The Women in Engineering learning community will help me create a small community within a large university. Engineering, a field that is 81.6% male, is a vital and important field in our society that has a lack of the female voice; making it imperative for women to find a place to conjure their ideas. The Women in Engineering community will provide me with just that with an early arrival time that will help with the transition into college, the ability to interact with faculty and professionals to help build my professional resume and the chance to interact and engage with women who are going through the same thing as I am. An Ohio State learning community, specifically the women in engineering, will be imperative for my …show more content…
Every year I attended Timberhill’s Girl Scout camp—a week long camp that brought girl scouts from all around the county to spend one week together in the middle of summer. The camp isn’t even a minute away from my house, but I remember feeling a world away my first day of camp. I was in a new place with new people I didn’t know what to do. The PA’s greeted us all as we walked out of the bus and the smile on their faces began to make me feel at ease. I began to “loosen up”—I started talking to other girls in my troop and I began to make friends that would last for summers on end. Years later, I find myself as a PA with a smile on my face as the campers came off the bus. I need a learning community at Ohio State, because I need something that will make me feel at ease and comfortable with the new change in my life; however, the learning community needs me to bring everyone