FYE event

This week I attended an FYE event called "Dude, where's my card?" that talked about financial responsibilities and avoiding identity theft throughout your life, especially at a young age when people don't know a lot about it. It was held by Fifth Third Bank on Tuesday at 7. The presentation really only lasted about half an hour, so I was glad that I went to it. My friend and I were waiting for the sorority kick-off at eight to start, so we figured we'd go to this class while we could! It was pretty interesting for the most part. I think that its very important for people to be as responsible as they can with their credit because, as I learned, bad credit can stay with for seven to ten years, which inhibits you from buying the things you want like expensive electronics, a car, signing for a loan, or paying for a house or apartment. I also learned that Columbus is a hot spot for identity thefts, which was rather surprising to me. The instructor Nick Nesbit said that Ohio was extremely popular for identity theft activity and Columbus was the most common place that it happened. He said it was due mostly to people misplacing their wallets, or giving out information like their social security number to scammers. What I took away from this FYE event was to always be extra cautious when giving out information, be super responsible with your purse, and hope that I never have bad credit!

10tv, Chasity Kuttrus, and Health

This week was exciting because we met in that huge boardroom in Roush hall and we felt like executives sitting in this pincushion leather chairs. To add to the powerful feeling, the 10tv news came and shot pictures of us while we sat in class. The footage was on the news on Monday and it made me so proud to be apart of such a thing! Also, I was very proud of President Krendl and all of us.
On of our speakers this week was Chasity Kuttrus, a high-powered Executive Coach who really talked about some interesting things. She talked more about women in the workplace, which was pretty much what my issue paper was going to be about: A lack of women in leadership roles like CEO/CFO's and boardmembers. I got a lot of starting information from her presentation for my paper.
I really liked the other speakers that we heard from who talked on health, fitness, and strength finding. I think that all of those things are really important to women, as well as men and children. The speakers motivated me to try and work out more and eat more dairy in order to reduce my chance of osteoporaisis. Though I haven't worked out yet, I have began to drink daily a glass of milk, something I otherwise would not have done!

Library Session

This week for class, we met in the library seminar room which proved to be a nice change from the crowed Roush classroom. I really enjoyed this week's class because it really held my attention. I especially liked the presentation done by Judge Mary DeGenaro.

I enjoyed all of the presenters. The information library session with Judy Carey Nevin was interesting because it made me wonder about being a librarian briefly; regardless, that's not for me. Next, we learned about volunteering on campus from Melissa Gilbert and more about our mentoring project which was good to learn about because I've been very curious about what's going to happen with that because I've never done anything like it before. That session was nice because we got to get up and change scenes by doing a group theater activity. From that I learned that no matter how different women may seem from one another, we all have the same insecurities and concerns about ourselves. We also listened to a presentation about women in Otterbein's history which I thought was very interesting because I loved looking at the old pictures of Tower's hall and all of the women. It made me prouder to be going to Otterbein to learn that their first two graduates were women in that day and age.

My favorite was hearing from Judge DeGenaro because of the way that I thought of her as her presentation progressed. At the beginning, I thought she was going to talk all about her job and what she did which I thought was going to be a little hard to pay attention to. As she began talking about her job, I started to understand more about the judicial system in which she served, but she began to also talk about her family and her life while she was doing that job. She talked about how, because of her family, she took a pay cut in order to spend more time with her children while they were young. I loved her point of view on women in the workplace and completely agree with her. Feminists would have seen her taking the pay cut for her family as a surrender to the male domination in our society; but, she said simply that having a family and working at the same time did not mean she was any less of a strong, independent women or caring mother and wife, and that you can be the same at the both time.