Upon starting our community service project, we realized how difficult it was to pick which organization we wanted to volunteer for! Therefore, using the resources Baruch has to offer it became very helpful. In one of our freshman seminar classes when we learned about idealist.org, one of our librarians taught us about how to use the website and it helped in finding our organization. Along with the librarian, the best peer mentor ever, Maria, a sophomore at Baruch, also helped us out when we were stuck on idealist.org and we ended up choosing the Pajama Program! She volunteered there last year so she was able to give us more information on it as well. The Baruch community is the best way to get help on anything you need. Likewise, in the beginning of the year I joined the club Women in Business and they were so inviting and have been a huge help with so many aspects of my student career. It helped me get adjusted to the school, make even more new friends, and have fun, which is surprising for a club that sounds so serious! Overall Women in Business has also taught me how to be professional and confident in myself in things such as public speaking and connecting with others. This can help me in almost all my classes such as with encouraging me to be a group leader or to participate more in class. Likewise, I think similar skills can help me in the community service project. Being confident and willing to participate and enthusiastic about volunteering will bring about a greater success. My understanding of community service has also evolved as a result of this Project and seeing all the presentations by realizing even the small impacts we make or the small changes we can cause, aren’t really so small at all. Little things can mean a lot to someone or something in need. In 3 years, I see myself as a proud graduate of Baruch, who is more well-rounded thanks to the opportunities given through Baruch Scholars.

There’s two different ways of defining a “community.” You can look at a community as a neighborhood, so a bunch of people living in the same area. Or you can look at a community as a group of people coming together with common interests and goals. I prefer to think of a community as the second definition. In Baruch my role is to eat a big breakfast, go to my classes, eat lunch, go to more classes, read on the train on the way home, then power nap, do some homework, eat a smaller dinner, and finish my homework so I can get at least 7-8 hours of sleep because Mr. Medina told me verbatim to do all of this. But in reality, at Baruch I can just go to my classes or I can focus and participate and really retain and learn the information. That is my goal and my role in my community here. As a Baruch Scholar in the Honors Program, I’m sure most of us have similar goals of wanting good grades. And we want them and we will probably get them because we are a group of students who genuinely care about our grades and work hard in our classes. Also, thanks to being a Baruch Scholar, I feel lucky to be given the opportunity for full tuition here. I think this idea a this benefit motivates me to do more and work harder, not only for myself but for my community. This is also a great reason why the community service project is incorporated  because it is the perfect way to give back! So within our Baruch community we have our own Baruch Scholars community and we’ll all be giving back thanks to the opportunity Baruch has given us.

There’s two different ways of defining a “community.” You can look at a community as a neighborhood, so a bunch of people living in the same area. Or you can look at a community as a group of people coming together with common interests and goals. I prefer to think of a community as the second definition. In Baruch my role is to eat a big breakfast, go to my classes, eat lunch, go to more classes, read on the train on the way home, then power nap, do some homework, eat a smaller dinner, and finish my homework so I can get at least 7-8 hours of sleep because Mr. Medina told me verbatim to do all of this. But in reality, at Baruch I can just go to my classes or I can focus and participate and really retain and learn the information. That is my goal and my role in my community here. As a Baruch Scholar in the Honors Program, I’m sure most of us have similar goals of wanting good grades. And we want them and we will probably get them because we are a group of students who genuinely care about our grades and work hard in our classes. Also, thanks to being a Baruch Scholar, I feel lucky to be given the opportunity for full tuition here. I think this idea a this benefit motivates me to do more and work harder, not only for myself but for my community. This is also a great reason why the community service project is incorporated  because it is the perfect way to give back! So within our Baruch community we have our own Baruch Scholars community and we’ll all be giving back thanks to the opportunity Baruch has given us.

Where have you been? Where are you going?

I don’t have any crazy story about being born in a foreign country or traveling the world but I was born in Staten Island so I guess that’s a close second? The forgotten borough was my home whether I liked it or not. I grew up in Staten Island my whole life, living with my parents, 2 siblings, and 3 dogs. My next door neighbor’s family was a second family too. We all went on family vacations together including Disney during Christmas, a cruise to the Bahamas, trips upstate and to their beach house in Long Beach Island. My family and close friends are a huge part of my life. Once I went to high school, Staten Island Tech, I had to leave a lot of my old friends behind and I was entering a much different environment to me. I ending up making the best of it and at the end of senior year me and my best friend won cutest bffs in the yearbook! Me and my boyfriend also ended up winning prom king and queen so I can’t complain. I was finally sad to be leaving high school and moving on to college. Baruch was a similar experience, entering another unknown place and leaving a lot of my friends again. Baruch has a lot of experiences for me though and I’m expecting to go a lot of places in my future. My perfect future would consist of a finished major in Business Management so I can apply that to the Business Hospitality field, where I want to work in a resort or hotel setting. But no matter where I end up, I plan on keeping my family and friends close.

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