Chris Mortenson
In my opinion serving my community means helping anyone out that is part of my community or take part in events held by my community. Even if it’s just helping a neighbor out with something or helping out at something like a clothes drive. As long as you are doing something to help the people around you I feel that it can be in a way considered a form of community service.
As a Baruch Scholar and student I think that it’s important to try and get involved with community service on one way or another. Obviously we all have to do a certain amount of hours as honors students, but I think it goes deeper than that. Simply joining a club means that you are getting involved in the Baruch community and not only is that important for the school, it is important to us. It gives us a way to connect with new people and make friendships and connections we may never have made if we chose to not join a club. Sure we all know each other well within the program, but I’m sure there’s a lot less people we know or are friends with outside of the program.
As for the culture of service the Honors Program promotes, I certainly think it is important. It can help us create more opportunities in the future and allow us to try things we may not have that we may end up actually enjoying.
I agree with your club point all the way. Getting yourself really into the community is the best way to learn how to give to it. Keep it up!
I definitely agree with your stance on serving your own community. I think we all get caught up in serving Baruch and its community that we forget to serve our own communities where we live.
I completely agree with you. It is definitely important for us all to get deeply involved with the community service that we do, further than the Honors Program requires us to.
Chris,
It’s definitely good to have a broad definition of community service as helping anyone in the community, because that helps to remind us to treat everyone kindly and fairly regardless of whether we’re in the middle of a service project. It’s a great outlook!