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.