Anthony Marsan Entry No. 3
As Honors students at Baruch, the resources at our fingertips are immeasurable. Not only do we have the opportunity to be taught by the most esteemed and qualified faculty; we have the ability to collaborate with each other in our classes. We have all worked diligently to get to our position and the mere grouping of our learning community is a resource since all of us are going somewhere in life.
However, when it comes to the community service project, we were shown how to find an organization and left at that phase to coordinate an activity. The assignment made us incorporate databases from Baruch’s library, with that of our honors status to establish credibility and to work our way into a non-profit corporation. It was different in that nothing was set in stone and we were given complete autonomy in the matter. So long as we valued the cause, and weren’t compensated financially, the activity was credible. It was an experience which many of us have not experienced as a school assignment. In fact, I expect many of my future classes and assignments to rely on personal autonomy and decision making.
Since the beginning of the semester, I have also managed to informally join two clubs. The first which I slightly experimented with was the club, Baruch C.E.O’s which has since been renamed however it wasn’t fulfilling its end of the deal. I didn’t like the atmosphere and quickly met a friend who is also a contact for the Finance & Economics Society. Through him, I have managed to keep up with events and presentations even though I have spent most of my club hours on group presentations for various classes. I managed to form this informal link to the F&E Society and till the Spring semester starts, my informal relationship should suffice.
In short, I believe that all of the skills we are refining through the Community Service Project, student clubs, and even our classes hinge on communication and networking. That is quite possibly the main point of a college education since we are meeting and speaking to some of the people who we will be working with, or against, in the future decades.