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Caitlin Ward
Hometown: Avon Lake, Ohio
Major: English
Minor: History
"With just a short time remaining at Otterbein, work is piling up and causing stress. Being reminded that the Otterbein community supports me helps keep me on track."
1. Has there been a faculty member who has inspired you? It is difficult to choose one faculty member considering how much the English department professors have motivated and influenced me. However, I met Dr. Eisenstien as a freshman and his encouragement prompted me to switch my major from education to English. He inspired me to believe in my writing and to take risks in my interpretations of the readings.
2. What are your most significant accomplishments? As the communications intern at the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association I have been able to create publications for their membership. It's gratifying to see your work printed in thousands of copies. I also feel that living in Ireland for a while is an important accomplishment. It had been my dream for years and I was able to achieve it through Otterbein.
3. How do you define success? Success is based on happiness and balance. Too much of anything - work, family, even luxury - can cause you to lose focus. A quote that comes to mind is, "Happiness is more important to success than success is to happiness."
4. When did you first realize your interest in English? In all honesty, it should have been a major I was drawn to immediately. As a child in elementary school, I always got in trouble for reading in class. I was the kid who stuck a book inside the textbook, as if the teacher wouldn't know!
Finish these sentences:
I am most proud of . . . accomplishing goals I have set for myself and making new ones for the future.
Someday I hope to . . . make a career out of reading, writing and learning - hopefully as a venerable literature professor.
I am inspired by . . . the ways my siblings look up to me and how I can always improve.
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