As Baruch Scholars in the Honors Program, we are all given so many opportunities and advantages. We are given a great education, excellent professors, a welcoming community of classmates, and technological as well as monetary rewards. With these, come responsibilities to give back to our community. After all, it is from those to whom more is given that more is expected.
Therefore, our role in the Honors Program here at Baruch is, above all, to share our knowledge and gifts with others, especially those who are less fortunate. We should share our knowledge by helping tutor other students at school, those in high school or elementary school, or even our younger siblings in need of help. Many of us also have money we can spare because we have been given an academic scholarship. Therefore, our roles as part of the Honors Program should also include monetarily helping those less fortunate. This money was given to us in order to help society, and we must do all we can to further this cause.
All of these things are related to the culture of service that the Honors Program promotes because we are to complete eight hours of service per semester. The Honors Program is promoting this service because we are truly capable of making a big difference in the world, even through the little help we can all individually give. Those talents given to us by God in addition to the advantages given to us by the Honors Program give us a duty to do all we can to use these gifts to help our community and the world as a whole.