Author: s.strachan

Successful college students take the initiative to seek out resources they need including faculty, peers, staff, support centers, the library, and student clubs among others. How has your participation in the Community Service Project encouraged you to draw upon the expertise of faculty and staff? Which support centers have you utilized? Have you joined a student club? Describe how using these resources for your team project have given you an edge in your other courses and your future success at Baruch. How has your understanding of community service evolved as a result of your participation in the project? Where do you see yourself in the next 3 years?

When we first start college and even before as we prepare to go to college one of the first things, besides maintaining a good grade, people constantly suggest you to do is to get involved in as many clubs that you are able to be apart of. They always tell you that are how school becomes more enjoyable and how you meet new people. This community service project made all of what they were saying seem to be 100% accurate. By working with an organization not only are we getting to work with others that we might pass on the street on a daily basis but also it is getting us involved with things that sometimes may be flaws in our city. It has made me want to find out about more ways which I could become more involved on the campus whether it be through a club that they know about or ones that they know of to be popular. This community service project makes me want to get more involved in my school to see what can I do here to bring more enjoyment to school just as doing something in the city makes the city more appealing. By joining different clubs at Baruch whether it may be more of a social club or an academically based club, I have been exposed to more people and different activities on campus. In doing so it made coming to school despite it still being school slightly more tolerable. I am still in the process of looking for new clubs and hearing about clubs that my friends are in, but from the ones I am in now it give me something to look forward to during our 4 hour break.

By learning the effect and the importance of being involved in different activities from this community service project it makes me want to make sure that I leave time in my space to try new clubs or activities throughout my college years. The lessons I learned have showed me a part of myself that I know I need to work on and I want to continue to push those boundaries to be the best person that I could be. As a result it made me realize there was much more to this community service project than a simple requirement I can not only grow as a person, but I can become more involved in my city. There is no better way to discover the city than by doing different projects organized by New York Cares and being able to put a smile on someone’s face. Right now I am very clueless and unappreciative of the city I have lived in all my life and I hope as these four years go by, coming to Manhattan feels more than just a burden.

When I hear the question about my current role in Baruch community as a scholar, I find it really hard to answer this question due to timing. I feel as though we are still just getting used to things and haven’t really had time to create a role in the school. However, I feel as the month’s progress by that my answer will change because I think that we should have more of an understanding in our sense of community and a responsibility of involvement.

 

The schools has given us things such as a free tuition in the Honors program, so we should as part of this program do the same and give back to the school. It may not just be financially in the future that we could give back, but rather we can give back by becoming more involved in the school. We could join clubs, take advantage of all the workshops and free help they offer now to help become very successful people in he future who can give back more then. My idea of what our role of what our role as a Baruch scholar is very similar to the things we need to fulfill as a requirement in the program. For example, as an honors member we are required to do community service in our freshman seminar class and we also have to attend a cultural event. Those our events that not only help give back to the school, but to the diversity of the city.

Volunteer work is related to the culture of service of the Honors Program since it all relates to a form of giving back to the community. In high school, I found giving back an important aspect to my school because it boosted school spirit and helped put a smile on people’s face especially during periods of trouble such as after Hurricane Sandy hit. However, not only is volunteer work good for the culture of the program, it can help us grow individually also.

To say that I simply wanted to repeat my first two years of high school is an understatement. It was in those two years, where I learned more of the path that I wanted to take in my future.

 

In my sophomore year of high school I had the opportunity to have leadership scheduled as a class. This class grew to be very important from the very start. It was this class that got me to become an active member in my school community, by helping, volunteering and attending at any event that I was needed at. It was also through those firsts days of leadership class that I grew my love for SING, which I did my last 3 years of high school, and was able to rediscover my passion for dance after a two year break.

My leadership class showed me all the joys and fun activities that my school had to offer outside the classroom. It made me realize I want to get involved and not just be that girl who practically speed walked everyday to the bus stop before other students got out of class. Being in leadership also showed me that in order to truly start to love where I am going to school. When you don’t attempt to be apart of your school community, you hate school even more you see school just as it is and miss out on many opportunities.

 

As a college student I would love to continue on the path of trying to find outside activities within the school to help make the school feel like a much better experience. That has always been my goal for a university to go and meet people who I would want to talk to after school ends and expand my horizon. My concerns, however, though I despite trying all these different activities and meeting people that I still won’t learn to love it here and that my feelings won’t change towards school.

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