Social Entrepreneurship Blog Post
EDUPL 2570: Team and Organizational Leadership
When I was younger, my aunt once asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I promptly said, "I want to be a secretary, so I can always help people." Well that response made her very angry and she went on to tell me that I should not settle for a secretary job, I should shoot for something where I could be respected in my job and where I could defy gender stereotypes. I remember being very confused about the entire conversation, after all, I was only six, and my aunt was lucky I did not answer her with aspirations to be Barbie.
Now that I am a junior in college, I have a better understanding of what my aunt was trying to tell me at six years old. It is fine if I want to be a secretary, but I need to remember that there are more than just traditional ways to help people. As I pursue my degree in Sociology, I am quickly learning that we all have our own ideas of what makes us social entrepreneurs. You can be a business owner, an engineer, an artist, a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, etc., and if you contribute and bring good to your society, you are a successful social entrepreneur. Since I have always aspired to be a social entrepreneur, I would like to talk about the recent discoveries I have made about how I want to contribute to society.
I have always wanted to take my curiosity with people and society and apply it to my future career, and it was not until I got my job as an Office Assistant in The Ohio Union that I realized that after I graduate with an undergraduate degree, I want to go and receive my masters in Student Affairs and Higher Education. How did this come about? Well, first of all, any one who has spent any time in the offices in the Union will tell you that the professionals who work there are the most amazing humans and social entrepreneurs you will ever lay eyes on. Their dedication to the future generations is so strong, and their drive to not only lead a life of positivity and excellence in their personal lives but to teach others to do the same is infectious in the most beautiful way.
What is my plan? I am planning on finishing my undergraduate degree in Sociology, with a Leadership Studies minor, then heading off to graduate school in Student Affairs and Higher Education. I want to find a position in Student Affairs in a college or university where I can inspire, teach, and learn from the amazing staff and students in that community. I have chosen this as my path for social entrepreneurship because I believe in the power of helping others in the form of guidance, and leading by example. I want to ensure that the world will continue to be populated by people who are passionate about changing the world, saving lives, and putting as many good intentions into the world as possible.
I would like to see myself, one day, as a Vice President of student life who works with her faculty to ensure that students can pursue their respective degrees in the most comfortable, respectable, and excellent manner. I want to make sure our future educators, doctors, lawyers, business professionals, artists and so on can receive a degree in their field of passion and go on to change the world for the better. I want to make sure their roads are built with the strongest of pavements given to them by their higher education experience. I plan to be a social entrepreneur who inspires others to become social entrepreneurs, and I could not be more excited about it.
-Emma
August 2013
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Let Me Introduce Myself
My name is Emma Hunko-Haynack, and I come from the heart of the United States, Ohio. I have lived in other places, but that was when I was a baby and all I remember are weird blurbs of events of those far away places so for all intents and purposes I am an Ohioan, and proud of it.
It is common for me to clam up when I am meant to describe myself in any way shape or form, and I feel it is because describing yourself is one of the hardest things to do. So for the sake of me getting to the point and to stop all of my rambling I am going to be as systematic about this as possible.
As I said, I am from Ohio, more specifically Copley, Ohio. This is a small township near Akron, Ohio where suburbia is at an all time high and all anyone can do is try their best to ward off any visions of becoming a rap artist, which I successfully did, but so many of my peers in high school fell victim too.
I grew up in a very different type of household. My parents raised my older sister and I on organic food, both locally grown and from our garden, and National Public Radio (NPR). They also invested in sending my sister and I to a Waldorf School, where I went from kindergarten to eighth grade. My mother is a Waldorf teacher, and taught at the same school that I attended. A lot of my grade school education has influenced my habits, and learning techniques, and I am very happy with the skill sets I acquired through Waldorf education. If you are interested in what Waldorf education is, I will post a link to a great website that gives you an idea about what type of teaching is done at a Waldorf school at the end of this blog post.
My personality has always verged on Type A. I am punctual, detail oriented, and a rule follower. I have been described as an introvert but I like to consider myself a shy extrovert. I am very talented at being really, honestly, passionate about a certain topic or subject matter for a brief period of time before switching to another object/topic. I blame it on my general curiosity about life and my tendency to be indecisive. This tendency has resulted in me transferring to Ohio State from a small school in M*chig@n, changing my major four times, and has continually resulted in just a general high level of anxiety in my day-to-day.
To conclude: I am a junior at The Ohio State University, a proud owner of her of Netflix account, and a Sociology major. You can find me working at the Administrative Suite in the Ohio Union (Buck ID is on the third floor, one suite over) or laying in my bed cultivating my imminent Internet fame. I think the most important aspects anyone should know about me is that I love to help, I am extremely fascinated by humans and their societies, and I am allergic to peanuts.
Thank you for reading! I will be here all Semester. *drops mic and walks away*
-Emma
August 2013
Link for Waldorf Education:
http://www.whywaldorfworks.org/02_W_Education/index.asp
It is common for me to clam up when I am meant to describe myself in any way shape or form, and I feel it is because describing yourself is one of the hardest things to do. So for the sake of me getting to the point and to stop all of my rambling I am going to be as systematic about this as possible.
As I said, I am from Ohio, more specifically Copley, Ohio. This is a small township near Akron, Ohio where suburbia is at an all time high and all anyone can do is try their best to ward off any visions of becoming a rap artist, which I successfully did, but so many of my peers in high school fell victim too.
I grew up in a very different type of household. My parents raised my older sister and I on organic food, both locally grown and from our garden, and National Public Radio (NPR). They also invested in sending my sister and I to a Waldorf School, where I went from kindergarten to eighth grade. My mother is a Waldorf teacher, and taught at the same school that I attended. A lot of my grade school education has influenced my habits, and learning techniques, and I am very happy with the skill sets I acquired through Waldorf education. If you are interested in what Waldorf education is, I will post a link to a great website that gives you an idea about what type of teaching is done at a Waldorf school at the end of this blog post.
My personality has always verged on Type A. I am punctual, detail oriented, and a rule follower. I have been described as an introvert but I like to consider myself a shy extrovert. I am very talented at being really, honestly, passionate about a certain topic or subject matter for a brief period of time before switching to another object/topic. I blame it on my general curiosity about life and my tendency to be indecisive. This tendency has resulted in me transferring to Ohio State from a small school in M*chig@n, changing my major four times, and has continually resulted in just a general high level of anxiety in my day-to-day.
To conclude: I am a junior at The Ohio State University, a proud owner of her of Netflix account, and a Sociology major. You can find me working at the Administrative Suite in the Ohio Union (Buck ID is on the third floor, one suite over) or laying in my bed cultivating my imminent Internet fame. I think the most important aspects anyone should know about me is that I love to help, I am extremely fascinated by humans and their societies, and I am allergic to peanuts.
Thank you for reading! I will be here all Semester. *drops mic and walks away*
-Emma
August 2013
Link for Waldorf Education:
http://www.whywaldorfworks.org/02_W_Education/index.asp
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