This is going to be my last post. I tried to put out some ideas that I found interesting from my sociology and english class.
The Community Service Project was a unique experience. I have never been required to look for a non-profit organization and then do a presentation on volunteering for it. It helped that the class met the librarian before we started to research because he pointed a couple of good websites to use.
This was the first time I volunteered in the upper east side. It surely was the first time I did meal delivery. I was surprised in the apartments I delivered meals to. I won’t get in depth with the experience but, my idea of volunteering did change by a bit. Putting into words how it changed is difficult because everything is a mix of past and present to me. I cannot tell how it changed from working on this project.
I have already begun using the Writing Center but, that place is almost always booked. I have to think 2 weeks ahead most of the time to even have a chance of getting a spot. Maybe next time I will try out the walk-in hours in the library.
What I am beginning to understand more, is that I am suppose to make the best out of any experience I have. A volunteering experience is much more than volunteering. Doing homework isn’t just to do homework. Everything I do should have more use than what seems to be the surface of it. It gives us an understanding of what it should mean to be a student and what I mean by that is that being a student is where we should be intellectually challenged in a way that helps us in the future.
Like, to be a college student isn’t just so that we get a bachelor’s degree. It shouldn’t be and the honors program tries to express this point but, in the end it depends on the individual. What we as college students will achieve should be something we think about now and is not something that can be pushed back. Time is no friend and we all know it as the first semester is about to end. Without a goal, a purpose, you will just wander and when you finally wake up, you regret.
That is basically my first semester but, I don’t regret too many things I did. I joined a club and as I mentioned, I am trying to make a badminton club. I found a group of people now compared to the state I was in for the first blog. I actually gave up into the semester but, I chose to go out to new places and I somehow met up with people who were interested in the same thing. That was one of the most surprising things that happened to me. When I expected nothing out of something, it exceeded my expectations :3.
Honestly, to call giving us these resources an edge to us in other courses and future success in Baruch is a far fetched idea to me. These resources that were given to us are available to every other Baruch student and the departments work very hard to promote their services in their email. The people who do not use the resources are either not checking their emails or just do not take advantage of it. An edge is only an edge when used and that depends on yourself.
In the future, I do not see much and I do not expect to see anything. I have already noticed that every time I have asked myself to look to the future, I have been wrong every single time. Time and time again, I was wrong. I did things I could have never imagined. Like, I never imagined becoming a badminton player in middle school and somehow (hah) in high school I became the best in the school. You can’t predict what you will become in the future but, you might (keyword) be able to push yourself in a crossroad that has billions of possibilities. At the same time though, you lose every option that you did not choose and that is something that I found to be important. Every time I chose to read manga and laze around, I beat myself up but, I continue to do it every so often. Without a goal for both short term and long term, procrastination is inevitable. Good luck on escaping the cycle of procrastination.
Maybe somewhere down the line, I will make an update on this blog. Hopefully you remember a sentence from my blog two days from now :3