Let's talk about how Undergraduate Admissions flew me down to Atlanta on Tuesday to speak at a High School Senior's Scholars Night! I first heard about the opportunity this summer when someone on the staff emailed me saying that they had heard I was from Atlanta and wanted to know if I could be the student speaker for their event. So after submitting my resume and a talk on the phone, I was in! Maybe I should have wrote my speech earlier but I kept putting it off, and before I knew it, I was back in school and then back on a plane home!
It was a really great opportunity though. Some of my friends were so jealous, saying "No fair, I want to speak in Atlanta!" Well it pays to live away sometimes! We left so early on Tuesday morning. I had to be up at 6:00 to be picked up around 7 and didn't even go to sleep till 4! But that's what the plane ride is for!
I got to stay in a hotel in the Atl, which I've never done before, hmm...I wonder why? But the entire trip was all expense paid, and I got a note to get out of class even though I was back the next day.
My sister came to see me speak and videotaped. Believe it or not, but I wasn't extremely nervous for this speech like my others in the past. I wasn't really prepared for this one either. I guess maybe because this was more of a persuassive type thing, and the fact that I didn't know any of the students helped because I had nothing to lose, compared to speaking in front of a group of my classmates or friends. I tried to make good eye contact and use nice hand gestures. The speech was just supposed to be a 10-minute explanation of why I chose to come to Ohio State and How the transition from GA to OH has been. I concluded it with:

"So if you have big dreams, big goals, or even a big personality, why not choose a big college? Go Bucks!"

I thought I did ok, but other people told me they liked it (unless they were lying to me) but my sister actually said I did good, and she rarely does that unless she kinda means it. I enjoyed talking with the high schoolers, especially since they go to schools near mine. I felt like I could relate to them or at least try to.

Oh to be a Senior again with all the pressure and decisions to make....Well good luck!
Here's the lovely hotel that I got to speak at in Buckhead by Lenox Mall.