Journal #2 – What does it mean to serve your community? What is your role in the Baruch and broader community as a Baruch Scholar in the Honors Program and what do you think it should be? How is this related to the culture of service the Honors Program promotes?
Serving your community means doing something beneficial to the environment you reside in. When I was younger I never really gave much thought to community service, when I first found out that we had to do community service for school I was confused as to why this was a necessary requirement. However, later on especially after actually doing community service in my local middle school, I realize that it’s something that both helps your community and helps you as a person. I think that my role in the Baruch community is to educate myself but in terms of other people to help friends and fellow students in excelling academically and socially as much as I can. The Baruch honors program offers an exceptional amount of constant support and help for its members and that makes me strive to do the same for people that I know and for my classmates. I hope to be inspired to do even more than I already do to better my community and I believe that The community service requirements of the Baruch scholars program will help me with that goal.
Hey Jennifer, I agree when I was younger I didn’t really think about community service at all. Once I got to high school I had a mandatory 200 hours I had to complete before I graduated. I later realized that it wasn’t heavily enforced, but still I always saw it as a requirement. I also went through that realization that it should be about the community and could be about me as well.
Hey Jennifer, I can relate to your experience. When I was younger I thought that volunteer work wasn’t worth much, but after volunteering for a school program I saw its value and began to appreciate it and understand its importance. Your experience is great and quite relateable.
Hi Jennifer,
I had a similar experience of looking at community service of “why do I have to do this, how does this benefit me directly,” which slowly changed to “it feels pretty good to give back.” Although work can be annoying, the good feeling that comes with helping others makes it more worth it.
I can relate to your first thoughts about community service very well and how when after completing community service my whole outlook on this changed drastically. It’s really neat that you noted that community service helps you as an individual because it made me think about how my past community service activities helped me.