PRE-JUNIOR

A year full of procrastination!

Theme: What specific experiences (honors or otherwise) in the past year have had the most impact on your personal, academic, or professional goals and life trajectory? Which future experiences will further encourage this growth? Please articulate specific academic and/or professional goals for the next year.

If someone told me before hand, that being an adult is going to be this level dramatic, I would have been aware at every step. But no matter how much I try to control my emotions, I am out of my hands now! The year #pre_junior after June 6th, started with lots of excitement. My summer semester was filled with classes and I was really excited about them! The courses were Differential Eqns, Thermo and Energy, Dynamics, Basic Fluid Dynamics and Lab, Engg Measurements, and ESL. All the classes were online, so no outside view! Since some of the classes were recorded, they helped in revision when exam was coming. #perks of online class!

We as a student feel a lot of burn out after semester. For me, I was going totally mad because I needed the rest for so long! So, I was ready to go outside Cincinnati, anywhere! And hence, ended up in Florida. I have never seen a beach in my entire life before visiting to Florida! I was so happy when I finally saw it. It was so beautiful. The beach location was Miramar beach. I was ready to jump in and what I observe, the water is soo salty, yuck!

Right before going to Florida, on my twentieth birthday, I jumped from airplane #skydiving. When I was falling down, I saw how small this whole world is! Literally I could not see any person from above 14,000 feet (approx.)! When I was falling down, I said to myself, “If I die here, I have no regrets!”. Why did I say that? Because whatever we are doing right now, yes, at this moment, like me writing this, you reading this, it is so small yet so meaningful that it is becoming a cherishing memory! And people say it rightly, “You came alone, you die alone”.

I got the opportunity to serve as "Welcome Experience Mentor" for this semester! I was super happy as I was able to guide 5 students under me who just joined University Honors Program! Teaching them "Down the Drive" is my biggest flex throughout the experience!

And then said hi to my next upcoming research! I became undergraduate researcher in "Intelligent Autonomous Systems Research Laboratory". It has been an amazing experience so far to work under Dr. Kim and learn basics of research! But I am planning big things, so wait for it!

And with that going smoothly, Fall semester is filled with one more ride which was me being an ENED TA. Through that experience, I realized that I like teaching or helping students academics related! Getting up at 6am and attending class as TA at 8am was the biggest flex I had! And then the semester ended. I saved money and booked my flight to India.

In India, it was my maternal uncle and maternal aunt's 25th Marriage Anniversary (Silver Jubilee). I was so excited for that. My whole family members were there. So, lot of fun! I wore a sari second time in my life! Yes, I was looking very beautiful.

But when everything seems right, there is always one thing which will not go as planned! And that happened with me. There was some personal issue which happened in India which made me blank for months! And to ice that, my plane was cancelled in the first week of my classes! I had to book my flight again and that too late because finance was a big issue. I joined classes late and here what I see, it is the toughest semester so far in my undergraduate career.

I started asking for extensions from professors but not all professors helped! I was not willing to cry in front of them because of my family issue so I took long breathe and was just going on. With my mind being disturbed all the time, I was procrastinating on another level! In that way, I lost valuable connections with the people who were close to me. And with professors too! I was sad, depressed and my emotions were all over the place!

My younger brother (sibling) just joined UC in Spring 2022! He started to live with me as my roommate! Yeah, family feeling! But he did not know how to cook, so I was responsible for that! My semester was already tough that I could hardly get time to do my part-time. But no money means no food! Yes, I was dependent on Bearcats Pantry for months! I somehow survived that semester! I am happy that semester is gone and now I can look forward! I have been to lots of counselling sessions till now and they are really helping me.

How can I forget, the most important event of the last year: Women in Aviation Conference! That conference boosted my confidence to next level! I cannot describe that event here in small words, so here is the: link

With that being said, I would like to announce that I am now:

President of Bearcats into Tech - Learn more

President of UC Rotaract Club - Learn more

Vice President of UC's AIAA - Learn more

UHP Ambassador - 2022 to 2023

BCP Ambassador - member of Outreach Group

My professional goal for next year is: Be presentable and lead the team with confidence!

Getting pro at decision making skills

My academic goal for next year is: Work on my GPA! And publish my research paper!

Yes, that's it! I guess!

It was not a great year so far as compared with other years but I hope I will make the upcoming year better version so far!