so why you all up in my grill, yo?
being a baruch scholar, i have finally come to realize that a free tuition is not a free lunch (we pay for lunch every day, anyway.) and that not paying tuition with money doesn’t mean you’re not paying tuition, because they will take something from you in return in the form of your sanity. however, as scholars at baruch, and even as people, we have a responsibility to go out into the community because we have been given that free tuition, our laptops, grand learning privileges, opportunities to form relationships with people who will, in less than a decade, become powerful, highly-paid investment bankers… jokes aside, we also have a need, as humans, to help each other with the benefits we have been given. many people fail to realize it, and i hate that. i wish people knew that people should actually have the idea that hey, maybe this person could use a little bit of help, and it will make his or her life more enjoyable because we are all fundamentally the same and just need some food and someone to talk to. i feel like regardless of benefits or adversity, people should always be doing things for each other, but we’re all just thinking about how disastrous the quakes in “hate-y” were and how they should get somebody to help whoever lives over there, but not them. community service is not $230 you throw at PBS for the haiti effort, it’s about establishing a link with someone at the most basic cognitive level, because we humans are all empirically alike. thus, my point is, we all are indeed responsible for the good of our respective communities, and what we do for the communities we live in will determine the state of those communities, because they only exist, really, if the people who live in them care for them as well as each other and take responsibility for them.