She may only be finishing her second year at OSU, but Paige Sedgwick has already earned a reputation as someone who enjoys helping others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a campus tour guide, she gets to help students through one of the biggest decisions of their lives \u2013 where to go to college. For her, it\u2019s the best job on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI love this school so much, and I love getting to share my excitement to help students make their college decision,\u201d Paige says. \u201cWhen it came to my own commitment to college a few years ago, I had a really hard time, so to be in a position to help students through that process feels really rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is also a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, the national honorary band fraternity. In this role, Paige volunteers for the music department in a variety of ways, helping usher at concerts, working at high school state band competitions, running bake sales \u2013 whatever she can do to help the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very versatile work. It all goes towards supporting band at Oregon State in any way we can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In her major \u2013 chemical engineering \u2013 Paige works as a learning assistant for the introductory course, but she also strives to develop support networks among her own peers. Her friends know her as a great collaborator, ready to work with them until everyone understands the necessary concepts for their classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cStudy groups are amazing,\u201d says Paige. \u201cIt is a two-way street. I help my friends, and they help me back.\u201d Building connections with people in your major who are going through the same classes, she says, allows you to be around people who will build each other up and work together so everyone succeeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But helping others grow, learn and improve is hard to do if you aren\u2019t working on growing, learning and improving yourself. That\u2019s why Paige has been taking advantage of as many opportunities as she can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Along with honors classes and colloquia, Paige enjoys attending Honors College lunches, events where guest speakers come to share their experience and expertise in specific subjects. She recalls one lunch that struck a chord within her, where Nora Cohen, an emeritus faculty member from the OSU College of Education, talked about writing picture books for rural communities in Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI loved the idea that we could empower other communities through picture books written for them,\u201d Paige says. \u201cI got really interested in maybe writing my thesis around a children\u2019s book about women in engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She recommends taking advantage of these lunches, as they are great opportunities to learn something new outside your major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really cool to be able to hear from people in different industries,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd also there\u2019s free food.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paige\u2019s commitment to helping others has not gone unnoticed: her friends regard her as selfless, a great collaborator and a natural leader. For Paige, though, it\u2019s all about making a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI do like helping people in whatever way I can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the switch to remote learning in spring term 2020, we reached back out to Paige to see how things are going<\/em>. She has stayed in Corvallis, Oregon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For spring term 2020, Paige is doing most of her classwork from her bedroom desk or the dining room table. She has been patient with her classes, as she knows both professors and students alike are doing their best to adjust to a new method of education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve found [my professors] are fairly accommodating and really open to student input on how class is run,\u201d she says. \u201cAll of the honors classes I have taken have been very accommodating and open to student input, so this isn\u2019t totally new for me, but having this happen in my larger classes shows that our professors really do want us to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n To stay sane and remain active, Paige has been going on bike rides and walks around Corvallis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have really been missing those five-minute walks between classes on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Lucas Yao: Student Writer, Honors College<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She may only be finishing her second year at OSU, but Paige Sedgwick has already earned a reputation as someone who enjoys helping others. As a campus tour guide, she gets to help students through one of the biggest decisions of their lives \u2013 where to go to college. For her, it\u2019s the best job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10598,"featured_media":7438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1205,1395124,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-hc-student-spotlights","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7896,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/7896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}