I’m currently a student in Baruch. My role in being a Baruch scholar is not only to accept the rewards that come along with this program but to give back. This year I would love to give back to my community by doing the community service we are assigned to do in our groups. I’m still
not sure where my group will choose to
give back.
During my high school experience I did a lot of community service, I did a more than 200 hours. I volunteered at Manhattan Beach Day Camp for one summer. I also volunteered in JCH during my school breaks. I did filing, data base entry, and translating for people who didn’t speak English. I loved giving back to my community. I did it from the end of freshman year to the beginning of senior year.
This is related to the culture of service the Honor Program promotes because I helped out my community and know I wanna help out my new community, here, at Baruch. I could also help out by joining clubs and next year promote the clubs I’m in, so more people would join and have a better college experience.
Another thing I could do that fits in with the culture of service that Honors Program promotes is advise people to vote and stand in the lobby giving out free stuff to those who sign up. This will help our community because more people need to express their voice, now more then ever, and vote! The concept of “one vote doesn’t count” isn’t true, because all those votes pile on and it becomes a large sum of votes. A large sum that DOES count. So those are some things I would do in my community to give back.
I think it is great that you want to continue to volunteer by helping your new community. I volunteered a lot in high school and I definitely want to continue in college. You can even join clubs that have great volunteer opportunities that you can take up. It is also great that you want to promote students to vote because everyone’s vote does count, so you should strive to achieve your goal of getting everyone out to vote.