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.