Journal Entry 2-Community Service

For me community service means giving back to the community that has given you so much. I know this sounds really generic, but I find it really important to give back to a cause or to support things that you believe in. It comes back to the saying “treat someone like you would like to be treated.” For me personally, I want to really give back to the community in Pakistan. Every time I go to Pakistan for someone reason I have an existential crisis. Although, the area I live in is really good, other areas have places where kids have to work long hours and quit school to make money. I think I am really fortunate to not only have the convenience to go to school, but then college and my tuition is being paid as well. I think that is why the Baruch Scholar program focuses on community service so much. We have to learn to give back to the community. As college students we may at times get overwhelmed by the workload and think we are the unluckiest people alive, but with community service, you learn that there are people in different situations than yours and everyone has a different struggle. A lot of people put off community service as not really helpful. They think that just because they are not making a huge impact they are not doing something worthwhile. However, this is far from the truth. Of course with more resources you could do more, but doing community service does make a difference to at least that one person that you helped. I think the Baruch Scholar program really works to make us better individuals through this community service experience.