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Whitney Prose
Hometown: Kilbourne, Ohio
Major: English and Creative Writing
Minor: Environmental Studies and Japanese
"I am nothing more than a catalyst. The energy I've channeled has always been present at Otterbein. I have simply focused it. "
1. What experiences and organizations have helped you learn, grow and discover? Freshmen year the Emerging Leaders Institute really connected me on campus. I met a lot of the students I still collaborate with, and I got to know my way around the campus offices. I've also been blessed to be in the Cardinal Corps Leaders - which is really how I began to utilize these ELI connections. Classes really give me the theories, but it's campus organizations that let me test the theories and see which ones fit my personal life.
2. What do you hope to do after graduation and where does Japanese fall into your life's goals? After graduation, I hope to go on to graduate school and eventually get a doctorate degree. I really wish to continue educating people about environmental issues - the forum for that conversation is all up to God. Perhaps I'll teach in churches, or in Japan, or in China (I'm learning Chinese now), I don't know. I'm open to wherever He sends me! In the meantime, I just like East Asian languages.
3. You founded and are heavily active with Plan-It-Earth. Where did your passion for the organization and environmental studies come from? Mom would walk the farm fields and show us flowers. She would ask, "Have you ever seen anything so perfect? God is even more perfect for He created this . . ." She didn't know it, but she was setting a pattern for me that I still follow today. I feel closest to God when I am in nature. I see the order, laws, and balance of Nature and believe they are reflective of their creator. At Otterbein I learned to back this spiritual belief with empirical evidence and logic that nature truly is immensely valuable.
4. How do you define success? Success is giving my best and knowing I couldn't give more. Success doesn't ride on grades, evaluations, or "failures." These are all secondary means of evaluation. To me, my personal success is determined by, if at the end of a job, I can look back and say I honestly gave it my all. If I have, then whatever outcomes happen, I am happy to accept and learn from them.
Finish these sentences:
I am most proud of . . . the radical green steps Otterbein has taken in the last four years.
Someday I hope to be . . . Dr. Prose.
I am inspired by . . . God's wonders in nature.
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