About Me

My name is Katie Chesnes and I am a junior at Ohio University studying retail merchandising.  I am Vice President Event Planning for my sorority, Pi Beta Phi and plan on furthering my interest in event planning for Limited Brands Corporation.

            I am from Columbus, Ohio and graduated from Worthington Kilbourne High School in 2009.  I spent majority of my childhood focusing on ballet all the way up until age 17.  I decided against auditioning for companies due to uncertainty with my future.  I didn’t like that I would have little to no control over knowing where I would stand because companies were extremely competitive, even for someone like myself who had trained for months with some of the best.   I enjoy business and decided I wanted to stand out from the average business major, so I chose retail merchandising which is the business selling process of apparel.

            My English 151 class did not teach me as much as I had expected, but surprisingly held my attention in different ways.  My professor asked me what I thought a lot and to apply my thoughts to what a textbook may be asking me.

            The course guidelines for 308J however, seem appealing and different, just like that 151 class.  I am excited to work on things through the computer and I never would have thought I’d be writing something for a Wikipedia page.  It’s a wonderful idea to have students within this class to create a blogging community because it allows us to get to know more students on campus as well as understand each person’s different styles of writing.  I taught myself HTML and CSS when I was younger and may come as a shock to most that I still remember some of the basic codes.  I’m excited to put those to use and really push myself to my full potential in this class.