Time transcripts of Mariah

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[00:00:04.03]	By the way, I can totally edit this, 

[00:00:08.05]	so you can just say anything. I'll understand.

[00:00:16.10]	So why don't you introduce yourself? 

[00:00:18.11]	Hi name is Mariah Bowens, and I'm going to be an incoming Freshman

[00:00:24.12]	from Columbus Ohio, and I'm going to be studying exploration. 

[00:00:30.4]	This is my daughter Maliah.

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[00:00:36.18]	She's 11 months old, 

[00:00:38.19]	and she'll be at the daycare all day, while mommy goes and studies.

[00:00:45.6]	So you're going to be starting off in exploration. 

[00:00:49.99]	Is there a major you want to eventually move towards?

[00:00:56.29]	Probably Business. 

[00:00:58.31]	Why do you want to study business?

[00:01:04.35]	It just seems like the... I haven't looked into it anymore 

[00:01:09.00]	but it just seems like the kind of thing that I should be doing.

[00:01:12.42]	Like working with people and managing things.

[00:01:18.9]	So what is it going to be like starting school with your daughter? 

[00:01:23.00]	Well hopefully I can make it as easy as possible. I mean, 

[00:01:28.51]	in my time to study I'll have to still take care of her, 

[00:01:32.00]	so hopefully we can just make this transition, all the way through.

[00:01:40.59]	Are you taking a first year writing, first year composition? 

[00:01:46.2]	Yeah.

[00:01:48.62]	Did you take English classes in High School?

[00:01:52.63]	Yeah. 

[00:01:54.64]	Did you enjoy those classes? 

[00:01:56.15]	Yeah I did. 

[00:01:57.5]	Can you tell us a story about one of those classes?

[00:02:03.0]	And like some ways that you thought the teacher 

[00:02:07.6]	was doing a good job and some ways that you think could have been improved?

[00:02:14.4]	Well, I had my English teacher in 11th grade, her name was Ms. Strother, 

[00:02:20.6]	and I thought she was an all around good teacher, 

[00:02:22.3]	because she was able to teach but she also made everything, 

[00:02:27.7]	when she taught she told stories about her life so it was easier for the whole class to incorporate. 

[00:02:34.2]	And she was also very funny, so it was just really nice for her to be a teacher 

[00:02:40.5]	instead of just standing there and having us read out of a book the whole class.

[00:02:44.99]	Not talking to the teacher and having to just read.

[00:02:49.02]	And then answering questions, we just did everything together.

[00:02:53.06]	So that's the way I like to learn.

[00:02:57.08]	Could you, what other classes did you take in High School?

[00:03:01.09]	Math and Psychology, let's see, Chemistry, Biology. 

[00:03:10.3]	Did you have a favorite class?

[00:03:13.14]	My favorite class...

[00:03:19.17]	My favorite class was probably Chemistry.

[00:03:21.19]	I actually liked it, so, I always liked Science.

[00:03:25.20]	When you were growing up, your parents emphasized things like one subject over another? 

[00:03:30.9]	Did they say, you know, you should study Science or Business or English? 

[00:03:36.5]	What did they care about?

[00:03:37.29]	Really they cared about math because that was a hard subject for me, 

[00:03:42.7]	so really they pushed, we tried to study math all the time. 

[00:03:47.6]	But everything else was really pretty much easy for me. 

[00:03:52.00]	What kinds of reading materials were around the house? 

[00:03:55.6]	Did your parents have books about math, or fiction or non-fiction? 

[00:04:03.3]	Really well, since my dad does carpentry he had things like that.

[00:04:09.50]	It wasn't really anything that I would pick up, pick up and read it or anything. 

[00:04:16.66]	I had chapter books and just regular childrens books, 

[00:04:20.3]	and the ones that dad would bring home from school, but... 

[00:04:24.4]	Could you tell us a story about the kinds of books you enjoyed reading, 

[00:04:29.1]	or like learning when you were growing up? Like what books helped you the most?

[00:04:37.61]	Is that a good question?

[00:04:41.64]	No, really growing up, the books that I liked were the ones with pictures in them. (Laughing)

[00:04:49.68]	Always the ones with pictures. I mean they still had writing in them 

[00:04:53.00]	but mostly I liked the books that had pictures in them.

[00:04:57.74]	I mean, but now, when I read books, whenever I read them 

[00:05:02.8]	I try to picture what's going on in my head, because it makes the book more interesting.

[00:05:09.78]	When you are reading to your daughter, what is somethings that you're thinking about

[00:05:17.81]	that you want to teach her, about reading?

[00:05:21.83]	Is there anything you want to emphasize for education?

[00:05:27.00]	Really I just want to...

[00:05:32.5]	Like my mom she didn't sit down and read with me everyday when I was younger.

[00:05:37.93]	So I think that if I sit down and read with my daughter everyday, 

[00:05:40.5]	and try to read everything, to teach her letters and colors and all that early.

[00:05:45.97]	She might, she can catch on to things more when she's older. 

[00:05:51.00]	It'll be easier for her to learn in school if we try to incorporate reading in her day, every day.

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[00:06:06.05]	Is there anything that comes to mind that you could tell us a story about? 

[00:06:10.8]	In your education career?

[00:06:14.08]	That has been formative, that has been very much something 

[00:06:20.11]	that helped you along the way helped you get to OSU?

[00:06:27.4]	Really what helped me get to OSU was being able to still stay in school after my daughter. 

[00:06:35.1]	I thought that since I had the baby and everything, everything was going to go downhill. 

[00:06:39.99]	Because it was my Junior year in High School when I found out that I was pregnant. 

[00:06:44.9]	And I didn't have her til my Senior year. 

[00:06:46.99]	But I was able to leave the school that I was at 

[00:06:50.15]	and actually have an in-home tutor for the six weeks. 

[00:06:53.7]	And I was able to come back to school. But really what I did, 

[00:06:56.7]	I went to the virtual high school, 

[00:06:59.81]	where I was cross enrolled at my high school and the virtual high school. 

[00:07:03.1]	And whatever I didn't complete at the High School, 

[00:07:05.4]	you could just go to there and complete it on the computer. 

[00:07:08.43]	So basically I made it through when I applied to OSU I still had my good Grade Point Average. 

[00:07:14.8]	And I was able to, in my application, write in the hardships that I went through 

[00:07:23.00]	with having my daughter and still being able to finish school 

[00:07:26.3]	and wanting to go on to college still.

[00:07:30.47]	I think I've done really good in getting into school still with the baby, 

[00:07:38.00]	because it's hard, sometimes.

[00:07:42.55]	Can you tell us a story about what that program was like?

[00:07:46.57]	Doing the, having the tutor?

[00:07:49.00]	Like what were some things the tutor did that really helped you?

[00:07:54.62]	Really, the tutor, what we really did, 

[00:07:59.8]	is this teacher at my High School would assign assignments for me and the tutor to do together. 

[00:08:06.1]	And really the tutor didn't really help me. You really have to help yourself.

[00:08:10.70]	Because all we did together was open the textbook, 

[00:08:13.9]	read the chapter and answer the questions at the end of the chapter. 

[00:08:17.00]	So really I don't, really I wasn't doing what everybody was doing at school, 

[00:08:21.5]	because they were doing projects and writing essays and everything 

[00:08:27.1]	when I was just reading and answering questions.

[00:08:30.80]	So, it was really different from being at school. 

[00:08:35.5]	Because I liked to be around people, and work with people, 

[00:08:38.84]	and really I was just by myself with the baby.

[00:08:42.86]	Because the baby was able, she was in the house

[00:08:46.87]	she was there while I was tutoring but she would sleep most of the time.

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[00:08:54.89]	I don't know, what else do you want to talk about?

[00:08:59.99]	We talked about like your early literacy at home, your early literacy at school. 

[00:09:06.97]	Literacy in High School, I mean...

[00:09:10.99]	Is there something you want to talk about with your daughter?

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[00:09:27.11]	I don't think she's going to settle down, I'm sorry.

[00:09:31.12]	Don't worry, it's totally fine.