FSU Honors Newsletter Issue #9-January 2018

Issue #9 January 2018

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

HONORS

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SAVE THE DATE

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2018 RESOLUTIONS

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ADVISOR'S CORNER

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DORM ROOM RECIPES

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DIRECTOR'S DESK

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ASK SYBILL

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

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"SAY CHEESE!": HONORS

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT WELCOMING TAGGART

FO ELBAT

CONTENTS

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PROGRAM EVENT PHOTOS

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SAVE THE DATE January / February

January 24, 2018 - 9 AM / Monthly

Breakfast in HSF

January 31, 2018 - 7 PM / Dodge Ball

Tournament at Westside Courts

January 29, 2018 - 5-7 PM / New Year’s

Resolution Cheat Day in Landis Skydeck IM sport deadlines

Co-Rec Flag Football: 8 on 8, sign up by 3/23, begins 4/2 Co-Rec Basketball: 5 on 5, sign up by 3/9, begins 3/25 Co-Rec Ultimate Frisbee: 6 on 6, sign up by 1/26, begins 2/5 Co-Rec Slow Pitch Softball: 10 on 10, sign up by 2/20, begins 3/5

Advisor's Corner UPCOMING DEADLINES

January 26, 2018, 4 PM / Honors Individual Augment Forms due

If a student is augmenting a course, their paperwork is due January 26, 2018 / Spring 2018 Graduation Application CLOSES!

If you are graduating in May you must complete this!

February 2, 2018, 4 PM / Honors in the Major Defense Announcements Due

Students in their final semester of HITM need to submit their Defense Announcement  February 5, 2018, 11:59pm / Honors Leadership Application Closes

Application closes for Peer Mentors and Honors Colloquium

FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK Dear Honors Students, I would like to welcome everyone back to campus.

Hopefully this semester will proceed as scheduled and there will be no “days off” like the fall. My family spent a majority of the holidays in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Yes, it was extremely cold up there (most days the high was well below 0oF) but it was fun to watch the snow fall and we enjoyed a White Christmas.

The highlight of the trip was spending 3 days at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. If you have been there, you know that it is much more than “just a mall”. If you have never been there, it is a real treat! Besides being 4 stories high, the mall is built around an indoor amusement park. The rides are for big kids too, like myself. You can experience a variety of roller coasters, a water ride, zip lines, and a 4-stories high ropes course. My oldest daughter (22 years old) works at a daycare and was excited to meet the characters from Paw Patrol. Unlike my wife and daughters, I do not like to shop but I enjoyed people-watching and watching the bowl games at some of the many bars and restaurants. If you are ever in the Minneapolis area, definitely stop by the Mall because I have never seen anything like it!

If you visited somewhere interesting over break, stop by the Honors office and tell us where you went so we can compare stories!

Best of luck for the new semester, Dr. Kearley

Elizabeth Eason Alumni Spotlight www.hibiscuswc.com

Elizabeth McLaughlin Eason graduated from Florida State University’s College of Nursing in December of 1989. While her husband and her were stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base, she was able to complete her BSN at FSU’s Panama City campus while juggling a part-time job, a toddler, and a baby on the way. She decided to join the Honors program because of its prestige and weight with prospective employers. While attending FSU, Eason was involved with Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, Garnet and Gold Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi, and volunteered at some of Panama City’s clinics. Upon graduating, she went on to work in a private OB/GYN office until her family moved after her husband left the Air Force. Once moved, she helped establish a private OB/GYN office and worked there as the Practice Administrator and RN. Currently, Eason works part-time as a CNM/ARNP in a private OB/GYN office. She is the preceptor for Nurse Practitioner/Certified Nurse Midwife students in her and her husband’s office. Also, she is an adjunct professor for their local college. Most recently, she became the Medical Director for Tabitha’s House, an orphanage in Haiti that her church owns. With this role she travels to Haiti 2-3 times a year.

Elizabeth Eason says her greatest professional accomplishment was returning to school fulltime to earn her Master’s of Science in Nursing, being certified as a Nurse Midwife and as an ARNP. Her personal accomplishments include delivering four children for the same family and delivering the baby of a baby she delivered 19 years ago. Her inspiration for continuing her education stemmed from working with Nurse Practitioners and Certified Midwives at her clinical sights during her undergraduate degree. She directly contributes her involvement with the FSU Honors Program and Nursing Program for her admittance into a competitive Master’s of Nursing program at the University of Florida.

For current Honors student, she gives the following advice: become involved in the community, discover ways to apply your education outside the classroom, and pursue your passions outside of your chosen career to have fun.

STUDENT STUDENTSPOTLIGHT: SPOTLIGHT KAITLYN HUETTEMAN

NATALIE JONES

Natalie Jones is pre-Med Honors student with a passion for people and research. As a freshman, she did two UROP projects, one at the Mag Lab on sodium MRI techniques and the other at the Institute on WWII and the Human Experience on US-Japan Post-WWII Relations. The work of her second project culminated in a documentary that has accumulated thousands of views on YouTube and Japanese Twitter. After these projects, she entered the lab of Dr. Yanchang Wang to do cell cycle research in the FSU COM. She will be defending an honors thesis on the redundancy of Bmh2 this semester.

In addition to her research, Natalie has also done quite a bit of service for her community and abroad. She was part of a short-term medical service trip in Cuzco, Peru, she started a college preparatory program at Carter-Parramore Academy in Quincy, and founded a chapter of Be The Match On Campus. Be the Match signs FSU students up to the bone marrow registry and in its first year achieved the number 1 status in the country and matched four cancer patients to life-saving cures!

Natalie has also become very strongly committed to targeted service to marginalized members of the community. Through her work volunteering with Pride Student Union and being in the transgender community of FSU, Natalie has become aware of the many issues facing trans people in medicine; lack of treatments, lack of research into long-term risks of therapies, lack of acceptance by physicians, lack of insurance coverage... the list goes on. Based on her volunteer work, she has realized that effective service comes from within the community and is only the result of careful reflection and targeted efforts. As a doctor, Natalie hopes to use her experiences to work towards remedying the issues facing trans people in America.

Although Natalie does not know what particular medical specialty she will pursue, she does know that she will provide comprehensive and change-oriented care to the trans population in some way and pursue clinical research to reform existing therapies.

Welcoming Willie Taggart: The Beginning of a New Era

by Jordan Block

After 8 seasons of unbelievable success in the ACC, the unthinkable happened; Jimbo Fisher, iconic head coach, left Florida State University.

Fisher, a West Virginia native, joined the coaching staff at FSU in 2007 as offensive coordinator under Bobby Bowden, until 2011, when he began his career as head coach. With Fisher as coach, FSU saw three straight ACC championship games, and contributed to a 36 year bowl appearance streak.

To say the least, students, faculty, and fans alike were a little attached to Jimbo. Rumors regarding Fisher’s departure flew for weeks before an official statement was released, prompting Fisher to leave the Friday before the Seminoles took on Louisiana-Monroe in Doak Stadium. His sudden departure angered fans, who had faith that their coach wouldn’t jump ship, regardless of how bad the season was. With Fisher making himself comfortable at Texas A&M, Odell Haggins, defensive line assistant at Florida State, stepped up as interim head coach when the Seminoles took on ULM and Southern Mississippi at the Independence Bowl, leading them to victory both games, and giving fans hope for upcoming, Jimbo-less, seasons.

Florida State hasn’t had to hire a coach in 41 years, due to Fisher’s work under Bobby Bowden, so when the search for a new head coach began, fans worried about who the program would be bringing in. Eventually, Willie Taggart, former coach at Oregon and University of South Florida, scored the position, prompting a wave of approval and excitement from Seminoles supporters.

Taggart has already started putting in work and preparing for the 2018 season, hiring assistant coaches and aggressively recruiting high school players to attend State. His enthusiasm for the program and years of experience both playing and coaching football makes him ideal for this position, and has us Seminoles potentially looking at a season that will be much better than the last one. When asked about leaving Oregon, Taggart was quoted saying “It was tough to leave. This was, like, the perfect fit for me and all of the things I’d like to accomplish. You don’t always get the perfect fit of things that you want, but for me to be back home, to be around my family, to have an opportunity to win a national championship; it don’t get any better than that.” Taggart’s passion for the Seminoles will go a long ways in Tallahassee, where fans and football players alike are ready to bring back our winning team.

2018:

more love, more kindness

by Ellis Daugherty

Coming into the new year, I hope everyone set at least one goal to strive for in 2018. For many of us, keeping up with this goal everyday will fail within the first three weeks of trying. One of my 2018 goals was to only eat one sugary thing a week whether it be a cup of cocoa or a Poptart at 3 am. Within the very first week, I swear I probably ate at least one sugary things a day. And, yes, they were mostly Poptarts.

In 2018, don’t let the failures early on keep you from achieving your goals for the new year. The most important thing to focus on is growth. Many people claim that with the new year, a new “them” will spontaneously arrive and all will be good. They’ll magically have the energy to wake up at 6 AM to go the gym or magically acquire the taste for kale, quinoa, and green smoothies. Like many worthwhile things, becoming the best “new” you takes time, effort, and determination.

I think that’s the true magic of New Year’s Resolutions. When you truly want something and you’re willing to work for it, the whole world opens up. Oftentimes, it’s true the first thing to give up is your mind, not your body or spirit. The only thing holding yourself back from working towards a better GPA or a better mental state is you.

So, in 2018, I hope you will dedicate a little more time to yourself, to volunteering, to doing something you love. Because doing those little things everyday will accumulate into one momentous change.

Just imagine, if you put in a little work everyday towards your 2018 resolutions by the eve of 2019, you will be a little bit closer to that “new you” that you’re dreaming of becoming. Be kind to yourself this year and don’t buy into the culture that you are not worth working on because you are.

DORM ROOM RECIPES

PIZZA-DILLA! INGREDIENTS Tortillas Shredded cheese (mozzarella works best!)

Tomato sauce Toppings (pepperoni, peppers, mushrooms, etc.)

INSTRUCTIONS 1. Heat up sauce in a microwave-safe mug for about 30-45 seconds.

2. Spread sauce on tortilla.

3. Sprinkle cheese and toppings of your choice on top of tortilla.

4. Sprinkle more cheese on top of your toppings.

5. Place another tortilla on top of the "pizza" and push down on it to make it a quesadilla.

6. Microwave for 30-45 more seconds, or until cheese is fully melted.

Ask Sybill:

Advice and Tea Leaves

Finding Faith-Based Organizations DEAR SYBILL: I came from a small,

private, Christian school and I am having difficulty navigating the large, diverse campus. What can I do to adjust to FSU'? ~YOUNG & FAITHFUL DEAR FAITHFUL: Adjusting from a

small, homogenous campus to a huge multi-faith campus is a great adventure. However, I agree it can be hard to adjust if you're not sure where to look. When I first arrived on FSU's campus, I had a similar struggle as you.

Finding a church in the community to attend and a group of Christian friends really helped me and so many other students. The benefit of being on such a large campus is that there are so many clubs and organizations dedicated not only to Christianity, but also Paganism, Judaism, and many others.

Because you specifically said you came from a small Christian school, I am going to assume you still are. Some amazing groups to check out on campus are Alpha Omega, Cru, Catholic Student Union, the Episcopal Univeristy Center, and many more!

To find all the greatfaith-based organizations, go onto NoleCentral,

click on "Organizations" / "Category" / "Religious/Spiritual" and then

they'll pop up with descriptions, meeting times, and contact information!

I encourage you to get out and explore these great groups of students. I know that after some looking around you'll be able to find your home here at FSU. Once you find your niche, the campus will feel so much smaller.

Remember, even though these clubs and organizations exist, don't be afraid to stretch beyond your comfort zone. On FSU, we are so

lucky to have a culture of tolerance and acceptance of all students so don't be afraid to take advantage of that. College really is the best time to explore and meet so many diverse people...people who may even become your new best friends!

Say "Cheese"!

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Editor:-in-Chief:Â Kayla Rojics Content Editors: Ellis Daugherty and Jordan Block