Guess I am more than a little late to post this, but I had a lot of fun going on the tour of the cartoon library. It was interesting seeing a lot of the comics and strips they had in stock, and how many are just being stored in a warehouse away from the general public. The story of one guy donating millions of comics strips to the University that he spent his life collecting was pretty amazing too. I'm glad I was able to go, I just wish there was a bigger turnout. I did windup dragging a friend who lives off campus to see it the following week though.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Humanities In Film
On Wednesday, November 28, the freshmen of the Humanities Scholars took the opportunity to share their hard work and innovation by participating in the film festival. Our theme of America: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness allowed us to showcase our creative talents by offering various different views on this topic. We had people do silent films on capitalism, creative oldies films, we had superheroes making the world safe for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and many other film ideas. I loved this event because it was fun to see everyone's efforts come to a conclusion and be able to share our views together. We were able to interact with upperclassmen and get their views on the videos as well. Everyone did a great job in putting together and overall amazing festival that was extremely entertaining and humorous. This was by far my favorite humanities event thus far.
Mentor Week
For our mentor week, the roommates and I went to Schmidts Sausage Haus in German Village. It's a very historic restaurant in a very historically rich area, not to mention beautiful. Granted, the line was long and the place was crowded, but we entertained ourselves by doing some shopping nearby. Despite the crowds, the ridiculously difficult time we had getting there, and the inordinate amount of obnoxious nebraska fans (yes, it was on gameday), I had a lot of fun, and thoroughly enjoyed the food.
My 5 Event Blogs
One of the first weekends here at school we went on a trip to a retreat ground. We broke off into separate groups and participated in a variety of team-building activities. The activities were pretty fun, and one or two of them were some-what challenging. The retreat really helped me meet a bunch of new people from our scholars group and definitely helped me get more comfortable with the group. It was a good time.
At the beginning of October I went down to the front area of Haverfield to eat some food with the rest of the building. I talked with some friends and enjoyed the great cookout food, all while enjoying the nice day. Hanging out with others from Haverfield helped me meet some new friends and it was a great opportunity to take a break from school.
During the first week of November, a couple of friends and I took a trip down to the Columbus International Festival at the Veteran's Memorial. We went because it counted for credit in English class as well, but it was definitely worth it. It was really cool to see so much culture and diversity in one place. Luckily we went there hungry as there was all different types of food there. The trip down to the festival was a Sunday well spent for sure.
A couple of Wednesdays ago I tagged along with some friends to attend the Humanities Film Festival to watch all of our video projects. It was awesome to see all of our projects up on the screen and see the work and creativity we all put into them. You could tell everyone worked hard and did a great job filming and incorporating life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
A few nights ago I took a much-needed break form my finals study sessions to grab a cup of hot cocoa in the Hav lobby at Cookies & Cocoa. Everyone was just hanging out and talking while I was there and it was a great break from the stress and strain of studying for finals. Its always great to see all the Humanities Scholars kids. Thank you so much Ben and Jenna, the cookies and cocoa was a great idea!
At the beginning of October I went down to the front area of Haverfield to eat some food with the rest of the building. I talked with some friends and enjoyed the great cookout food, all while enjoying the nice day. Hanging out with others from Haverfield helped me meet some new friends and it was a great opportunity to take a break from school.
During the first week of November, a couple of friends and I took a trip down to the Columbus International Festival at the Veteran's Memorial. We went because it counted for credit in English class as well, but it was definitely worth it. It was really cool to see so much culture and diversity in one place. Luckily we went there hungry as there was all different types of food there. The trip down to the festival was a Sunday well spent for sure.
A couple of Wednesdays ago I tagged along with some friends to attend the Humanities Film Festival to watch all of our video projects. It was awesome to see all of our projects up on the screen and see the work and creativity we all put into them. You could tell everyone worked hard and did a great job filming and incorporating life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
A few nights ago I took a much-needed break form my finals study sessions to grab a cup of hot cocoa in the Hav lobby at Cookies & Cocoa. Everyone was just hanging out and talking while I was there and it was a great break from the stress and strain of studying for finals. Its always great to see all the Humanities Scholars kids. Thank you so much Ben and Jenna, the cookies and cocoa was a great idea!
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
One (very late, very long) post for four events
I have four events that I need to blog about, going as far back as late Setember. I am writing about them now, because I am a horrible person who can't submit things on time. So, instead of filling up this blog with like four post's worth of events that are mostly from September/October (sorry...!), I'm just going to mention them all here...
1) The first event I actually attended at Ohio State was Comedy Central's The Daily Show Live: Indecision Tour 2012 on September 22nd. Emily and I arrived at the union almost two hours early to wait in line and get good seats, and luckily we weren't disappointed by the seats or by the show. Though Jon Stewart did not come to OSU three people who worked on his show, Al Madrigal, Adam Lowitt, and John Hodgman, did.
Their standup routines were all hilarious; highlights for me were Lowitt describing what has to be the most awkward handshake in existence ("Somehow my thumb got separated from the rest of my hand, so she just went to shake my thumb... we were both so disgusted with me..."), Hodgman talking about how bad he is at sport ("It's called bases ball. Because there's more than one base."), and basically Madrigal's entire routine ("Te gusta chachis negro?" "Daddy doesn't have a 'gina! Daddy's a man!" "He imported clip art!") . By the end of the show, my cheeks hurt because I had been smiling and laughing so much.
After the show, there was a Q&A session. Some questions were very awkward and there were some problems with heckling, but Al Madrigal handled it like a boss. Emily and I even got a picture with him. Yeah. You should be jealous.
2) On October 2nd, I went to the research expo at the Union. The research expo was pretty similar to that of the study abroad expo, except instead of having a lot of booths set up for different types of travel programs, the booths were made up of the different research groups here on campus. I was especially interested in the mouse behavior research, but the entire time I was at the expo, nobody was at that booth to explain the research to me. I talked to a couple of different people, and one of them even told me to apply to volunteer with her come January. The main things that I took away from the expo were that there are many different types of scientific research there are on campus, but in order to get involved (if I decide to do so), I will have to reach out.
3) On November 15th, I went to the resume workshop, which was extremely helpful. I don't really have a lot to say about it, but thanks to the presenter's advice, I was able to cut my resume down significantly so that only the most important information was on it. My resume looks better overall, now, and it has a lot more relevant information.
4) The last event in this monstrous side post is the humanities film festival! I had a lot of fun watching the final product of my group's movie (Shoutout to Starlight Studios!), and watching everyone else's videos as well. We all did really good jobs!
1) The first event I actually attended at Ohio State was Comedy Central's The Daily Show Live: Indecision Tour 2012 on September 22nd. Emily and I arrived at the union almost two hours early to wait in line and get good seats, and luckily we weren't disappointed by the seats or by the show. Though Jon Stewart did not come to OSU three people who worked on his show, Al Madrigal, Adam Lowitt, and John Hodgman, did.
Their standup routines were all hilarious; highlights for me were Lowitt describing what has to be the most awkward handshake in existence ("Somehow my thumb got separated from the rest of my hand, so she just went to shake my thumb... we were both so disgusted with me..."), Hodgman talking about how bad he is at sport ("It's called bases ball. Because there's more than one base."), and basically Madrigal's entire routine ("Te gusta chachis negro?" "Daddy doesn't have a 'gina! Daddy's a man!" "He imported clip art!") . By the end of the show, my cheeks hurt because I had been smiling and laughing so much.
After the show, there was a Q&A session. Some questions were very awkward and there were some problems with heckling, but Al Madrigal handled it like a boss. Emily and I even got a picture with him. Yeah. You should be jealous.
2) On October 2nd, I went to the research expo at the Union. The research expo was pretty similar to that of the study abroad expo, except instead of having a lot of booths set up for different types of travel programs, the booths were made up of the different research groups here on campus. I was especially interested in the mouse behavior research, but the entire time I was at the expo, nobody was at that booth to explain the research to me. I talked to a couple of different people, and one of them even told me to apply to volunteer with her come January. The main things that I took away from the expo were that there are many different types of scientific research there are on campus, but in order to get involved (if I decide to do so), I will have to reach out.
3) On November 15th, I went to the resume workshop, which was extremely helpful. I don't really have a lot to say about it, but thanks to the presenter's advice, I was able to cut my resume down significantly so that only the most important information was on it. My resume looks better overall, now, and it has a lot more relevant information.
4) The last event in this monstrous side post is the humanities film festival! I had a lot of fun watching the final product of my group's movie (Shoutout to Starlight Studios!), and watching everyone else's videos as well. We all did really good jobs!
Monday, December 10, 2012
Cookies and Cocoa
Yesterday, December 9th that is, the humanities leaders provided the group with cookies and cocoa. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the end of our first semester. It also gave us a reason to take a study break :) It was really great to see everyone again before we all go on break and return next year. Not to mention the cookies were delicious.
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The first, the meet we had in the beginning of the year to get to know each other and incorporate teamwork and active participiation into our lives. I thought it was great to go out as one group, get to know people, and have fun breaking our minds over puzzles as a unit. More of this!
The second was the film event. It was a really well done presentation which left some great impressions and memories. Ben, awesome video! Still got that one in the back of my head, will for a while anyways)). Our personal project could have used some more touch up, but it was hard to tell before having something to compare to. I am sure we would all do great on a second run if we tried again.
So far, that has been it for me. Will try to get more next semester.
-Dzmitry Tsitsishyn