Author: David Cheng

At first, when I was assigned the community service projects I was overwhelmed and under lots of pressure. Being given so much self-autonomy and personal responsibility to find my own company to do community service was immense. I went on idealist and it seemed like there was never ending stream of companies. Eventually after complications left and right, I sought the help of Maria who came to the rescue. Using this experience, I’ve learned that connections are extremely important in all circles of life. Having people that you can turn to that can help you in your time of need is a breath of relief.

As for my other courses in my future, I will try to make a larger effort to speak to others I have taken the course and to ask them for their assistance so that I don’t have to walk alone. From our STARR visit, I’ve taken a lot of their advice to heart.

I haven’t joined a club for good yet.

At first, when I heard that I had to do community service, I was quite disappointed and frustrated even. I saw it as a necessary means of payment for being in the honors program that has offered me a scholarship. However, now that I seen the other community service projects, I’ve gained more holistic view of what community service truly means. I understand now that I cannot just go on forward without repaying the gifts that I’ve received.

In the next 3 years I still have a very hazy view of my future. However I now known that I don’t want to go into business. I see myself taking more varied and diverse courses to try to find something I can latch onto for the time being. I want to try and find an interesting course where I can settle down with it as my major and not be completely discontent. I see myself taking a lot of cultural classes and trying to go abroad and try to find something that I would don’t despise as a major.

My role in the Baruch College as a Baruch Scholar is to get high grades so we’re in good standing with the GPA requirements, complete the 15 hours of community service each year, and to go to an arts/culture event each semester. For the broader community, my role is to help out with community service like before.

I think that my role should be something along the lines of a good role model to other honor students and non-honor students. I shouldn’t be doing anything that would look bad on the school’s part and the Honors Program’s part. As for the larger community, I should be going out and doing all sorts of good works. When I think of “honors kid out in the world,” I think of those genius kids in the news that discovered the cure to some disease in a third-world country or kids that found charity organizations.

This ties into the expectations for community service in the Program because the program wants us to become at least some derivative of the idols I mentioned before. The program wants to promote a culture of valuing community service and to teach kids how it is not simply a requirement they are enforcing but rather a beneficial essential of being in a community.

 

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My names David Cheng and I’m from Long Island.

I haven’t experienced much in life yet but I think enough to give me an idea of who I am. I’ve met my closest friends through online games and I value games greatly for giving me a way to meet (hopefully, who knows?) lifelong friends. As a middle school kid, I lived and breathed the stuff so I naturally gravitated to PC building as they go hand in hand. I like how when I build a computer, I can feel good about the final result. From then, on my own computer has gotten replacements for every part so many times that I’ve essentially gotten multiple new computers. Nowadays, I don’t like games all that much and I’ve lost the reason to open up and beef up my computer. “Identity crisis” is too dramatic but you get the idea.

As for college, I don’t have any high expectations for the first half. For freshman and sophomore years, I’m planning to find out if the professional workforce or business is for me. I can’t stand stifling environments where I have to wear suits and act “professional” but 80 grand a year is 80 grand. All I hope for my first semester is to get used to commuting because my mood is completely sour when getting home at 10pm (happens more than I prefer).

Thank you for reading.