To serve your community means to be actively engaged in projects that seek to aid the ones in need or solve a major problems within your community. My role at Baruch College is to do just this. Find a way to aid fellow classmates and peers and work with others to better our experiences in college, and furthermore, our education. The Honors program definitely makes serving your community a must. This is a good thing because it encourages you to go out there and make a difference not only for yourself but for others also. As a productive member of society, you sometimes have to think way beyond your personal interests and take into consideration what your community actually needs and why.

The “culture of service” the Honors program promotes makes one engage in projects that one wouldn’t engage in otherwise. This opens the doors to many opportunities and makes one more culturally aware, a significantly good quality to have when living in such diverse community.  Being part of the Honors program, therefore, gives you a great advantage by taking you out of your comfort zone and exposing you to ideas and problems you were not aware of before through community service. Programs like these help build the leadership skills and the cultural awareness you need in today’s world. We can also attribute this program the building of our future leaders and even activists. This is such an important thing because it shapes our future, and in a way it ensures a future that does not lack leadership and cultural relevance.

To serve your community means to be actively engaged in projects that seek to aid the ones in need or solve a major problems within your community. My role at Baruch College is to do just this. Find a way to aid fellow classmates and peers and work with others to better our experiences in college, and furthermore, our education. The Honors program definitely makes serving your community a must. This is a good thing because it encourages you to go out there and make a difference not only for yourself but for others also. As a productive member of society, you sometimes have to think way beyond your personal interests and take into consideration what your community actually needs and why.

The “culture of service” the Honors program promotes makes one engage in projects that one wouldn’t engage in otherwise. This opens the doors to many opportunities and makes one more culturally aware, a significantly good quality to have when living in such diverse community.  Being part of the Honors program, therefore, gives you a great advantage by taking you out of your comfort zone and exposing you to ideas and problems you were not aware of before through community service. Programs like these help build the leadership skills and the cultural awareness you need in today’s world. We can also attribute this program the building of our future leaders and even activists. This is such an important thing because it shapes our future, and in a way it ensures a future that does not lack leadership and cultural relevance.

To serve your community, is to make an impact on the lives around you as well as further develop your own identity. At least, that’s how I interpret it. I can’t say I’m the most active member of my community. While I do have some volunteer hours at Stony Brook University Hospital as well as involvement with the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life under my belt, I wouldn’t consider my participation to have largely impacted the community. I want to become more involved through hands on community service projects and I believe the Baruch scholars program will allow me to accomplish this.

Baruch Scholars requires that its students complete a certain number of hours of community service in order to remain in the program. This is not a difficult requirement to meet seeing as most of us have taken the initiative to get involved prior to the program. I believe the program will push me to explore and aid others in ways I wouldn’t have thought of before. This would not only be beneficial for others, but for myself as well. Through helping others, one achieves a sense of gratitude and life fulfillment. Knowing that your actions bettered someone else’s life is a great feeling; you’ve made a mark on the world, even if it’s a small one.

To me, community service is more than just doing a few things to help out groups of people. It is an effort we continually engage in to try and improve the lives and experiences of community members and it is a way for us to give back. When I was in high school, I took part in a variety of community service projects (both school-sponsored and not). I did this not only to fulfill the yearly 20 hour service requirement, but also because I felt that I needed to give back to my community and try to help those in need. I volunteered at a local day camp in my area each summer throughout my high school career, and I have participated in a handful of events that helped the rebuilding effort in the Rockaways after Superstorm Sandy. I felt that I had an obligation to help out with this cause because after the storm, community service organizations like NY Cares and the Build-It-Back program helped my own family out.

Serving my community has taught me certain values and ideals that I plan on applying to my experiences here at Baruch. The Baruch Scholars program places great emphasis on community service and giving back, and I look forward to upholding its standard. I have only been a part of this program for a little over a month and I have already learned a lot about the different types of community service opportunities that are available in this area and in neighboring parts of the city. I plan on choosing one of these opportunities to use for the community service project I will complete with my group members next semester.

To me, community service is more than just doing a few things to help out groups of people. It is an effort we continually engage in to try and improve the lives and experiences of community members and it is a way for us to give back. When I was in high school, I took part in a variety of community service projects (both school-sponsored and not). I did this not only to fulfill the yearly 20 hour service requirement, but also because I felt that I needed to give back to my community and try to help those in need. I volunteered at a local day camp in my area each summer throughout my high school career, and I have participated in a handful of events that helped the rebuilding effort in the Rockaways after Superstorm Sandy. I felt that I had an obligation to help out with this cause because after the storm, community service organizations like NY Cares and the Build-It-Back program helped my own family out.

Serving my community has taught me certain values and ideals that I plan on applying to my experiences here at Baruch. The Baruch Scholars program places great emphasis on community service and giving back, and I look forward to upholding its standard. I have only been a part of this program for a little over a month and I have already learned a lot about the different types of community service opportunities that are available in this area and in neighboring parts of the city. I plan on choosing one of these opportunities to use for the community service project I will complete with my group members next semester.

I started volunteering for community service starting from the beginning of my high school career. When I was a freshman, I joined a club called SFSR (Students for Social Responsibility) that tried to raise awareness about the ways in which we, as members of the same community, can help the less unfortunate. The club’s activities mostly consisted of raising money through bake sales and collecting donations for local Long Island charities. After four years as a dedicated and active member, I was honored to have taken up the role as the president of the club my senior year. The duties of being the president ranged from running the meetings by announcing upcoming drives to personally delivering all the charity donations from our club to the non-profitable organizations. It was a lot of responsibility but the more effort that was put in, the more rewarding it was at the end of the day when I actually got to see the gratifying reactions from the recipients of the donations. I was more than happy that I had the opportunity to give back to the community the one way I knew how.

As a Baruch Scholar, I hope to accomplish more in the future through community service not just because of the school requirement to do so but because of my choice. Overall, I believe the group volunteer project will allow my group partners and me to learn a valuable lesson that we wouldn’t be able to gain from merely just schoolwork.

Sometimes we take things in our everyday lives for granted. We do not even realize how many things we have that are privileges. Take a second to list these privileges. I can think of a good number of them right off the bat.

• A roof over your head
• A loving family
• A home, a bed
• Three meals daily (sometimes, I am a college student after all)
• Birthday or Christmas presents
• Nice clothes, a warm winter jacket
• Education

Now, look at who we are in this moment. We are possibly more privileged now so more than ever. Not only are we getting a great college education, but we are lucky enough to be Baruch Scholars, who have the treat of a full ride (yay).

I was always taught by my mother and father to keep moving forward, working hard to a goal. To push myself, to learn from others, and to achieve that goal. I was also taught to look back. Look back on everything that brought me to where I am, and to say “thank you.” From the moment I learned to write, my mother engrained in me the importance of sending thank you notes to everyone who gave me presents. Of course, a four-year-old’s note probably read “Dear Ant Beth, Thaks for my toy. I lov it. Lov, Elisa.” Later, when I was about seven or eight, my mom taught me the importance of community service. We had an excess of things in our home. Excess is the perfect word. In namely, hotel-sized shampoo and conditioners. Since she used to travel very often for her career, my mom would bring home those cute little shampoos all the time. Each year, we would gather all of our unwanted clothing and give it to the church, and gather the canned goods we did not need and gave them, along with the shampoos, to the Mary Brennan Soup Kitchen on Long Island. We continued this for ten years. We loved to see the sheer gratitude in the eyes of the people who worked and visited the Soup Kitchen for meals. Community Service is highly regarded and appreciated, but when you have all this excess and privilege, isn’t giving back a no brainer?

I am excited about finding an organization to volunteer with this year. I think it is wonderful that we are making a group project out of volunteering in Freshman Seminar, a course where we discover the tools to interact with the diverse Baruch and NYC community. It is important to me to be involved in a cause I believe in, and part of the reason why I am enjoying Baruch already is because of my joining the aforementioned club (in my previous post), Baruch GLASS. GLASS (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Society) is a half social, half professional club that acts as a safe space for LGBTQ youth and their allies to meet, to be educated and to educate others on current LGBTQ issues, learn about LGBTQ history (LGBT History Month is happening right now so go to some events people *shameless promotion*), and mainly to have fun and feel welcome. I know that it is not a non-profit organization, but it is dear to my heart because I have witnessed members become infinitely more comfortable in their own skin, since GLASS’s values are so strong. Right now, I hold the position of Executive Assistant to the Creative Director because I value these things. I want to give back to each community I feel has shaped who I am, and has played a role in creating the life I get to live.

Guys, look at how much we have been given. Let’s say thank you in a big way. Let’s lend a hand, offer our time, and remember to look back, even when looking forward.

As a Baruch scholar, my role is not limited as a learner who study and learn stuff from being a college student, but should be one that applies what we learn in school to serve the community by helping it get better and better. Serving our community is always a beautiful thing to do. But as we living a busy life, it now becomes a “hard” thing for people to actually get the chance to serve our community. You are busy working days and nights without getting enough sleep, you have a project to finish by the end of the weekend, or you think it’s not going to make it a big difference. All kinds of things are dragging you from doing your community service. In my opinion, serving our community is never a hard or tiring thing to do. It could be as simple as picking up a paper scrape while you working on the street. Any little thing counts!

“EXPLORE. ENGAGE. TRANSFORM.” These three words shown in the Baruch Honors website are the culture that Baruch Honors Program promotes. As a Baruch scholar, we explore our school and the community that we’re all in, actively engage in clubs and communities services and transform ourselves from a student that maintains high academic standards to be a part of the community. Fulfilling the Honor’s requirement of serving community services is not just a job that we have to finish but an opportunity for us to gain experience in the society, at the same time, help our community in whatever ways they need us. I’m very looking forward to participating in our community service. I think it’ll be a great experience for me!

As a Baruch scholar, my role is not limited as a learner who study and learn stuff from being a college student, but should be one that applies what we learn in school to serve the community by helping it get better and better. Serving our community is always a beautiful thing to do. But as we living a busy life, it now becomes a “hard” thing for people to actually get the chance to serve our community. You are busy working days and nights without getting enough sleep, you have a project to finish by the end of the weekend, or you think it’s not going to make it a big difference. All kinds of things are dragging you from doing your community service. In my opinion, serving our community is never a hard or tiring thing to do. It could be as simple as picking up a paper scrape while you working on the street. Any little thing counts!

“EXPLORE. ENGAGE. TRANSFORM.” These three words shown in the Baruch Honors website are the culture that Baruch Honors Program promotes. As a Baruch scholar, we explore our school and the community that we’re all in, actively engage in clubs and communities services and transform ourselves from a student that maintains high academic standards to be a part of the community. Fulfilling the Honor’s requirement of serving community services is not just a job that we have to finish but an opportunity for us to gain experience in the society, at the same time, help our community in whatever ways they need us. I’m very looking forward to participating in our community service. I think it’ll be a great experience for me!

Obviously, my role at Baruch is to be a student. In the past, I just saw that as showing up to class, doing my homework, and taking tests. As I got to high school, I realized it’s a lot more than that.

I am lucky to say I grew up with a close family and a father who worked his entire life to support us and give us as much as possible. Sure, I don’t live in a mansion or go to exotic places or wear fancy clothes, but I am more than fortunate. I can accept that there will always be people with more than me, but personally, knowing there are people with a whole lot less is just not something I want to live with.

Throughout high school, I was involved in many community service projects through The National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta (a math honor society). Personally, I believe the most rewarding work I did was peer tutoring. One on one time with younger students who couldn’t afford a professional was really incredible. To be able to help and inspire them in math was really great. They came in hating math, and then after a few sessions they were curious to learn more. I am sure teachers can relate to this feeling of pride and accomplishment. I loved hearing back that my peers were passing and I contributed to their success.

I believe, being in the Honors Program, that my role here at Baruch requires more responsibility. The program really reinforces the idea that we can, and should, all help our community. I am going to school for free and I have a lot of resources at hand. Being in the city not only exposed me to its greatness, but shed light on the less fortunate people that are out there. I feel an obligation to do anything I can to serve my community, be it remain a tutor, volunteer at a soup kitchen/animal shelter/hospital/etc, or even just donate some money to a cause. It is extremely rewarding to pay it forward, and I really hope I can make some sort of difference during my time here at Baruch and beyond.