Ohio State Learning Community Essay

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 enhance 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 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 transition from high school into college. I have always been a vital part of a group and I am usually the glue that helps bring people together. Every year I attended Timberhill’s Girl Scout camp—a week long camp that …show more content…
The WiE community offers evening study sessions, requires everyone in the program to take one class together and has participants go on field trips together to experience real world engineering problems. In the event I cannot be placed into the WiE program please consider me for the Engineering House learning community, because it will provide me a chance to live in a close community with students who share an interest in engineering. A learning community is imperative to make Ohio State feel like a home and I hope to find my home next year not only as a buckeye, but also as a successful