What does it mean to serve your community?

My current role as a Baruch scholar is to learn. It is to learn and in turn take that knowledge and those experiences to incite some change in our communities, as little as it may be, as long as it is a positive change. This seems like a great start but I think we should begin to share our knowledge with this program with others in Baruch. For instance, there have been certain things that Neeram and I have learned by being in the Baruch scholars program and we shared this with friends in Baruch that aren’t in this program. Not all the freshmen have been taught at their FYS classes about all the school requirements in Baruch, at least not in the same depth that we have learned, as they are surprised when we talk to them about it. I think it is important for us to share the privilege of being in this program with others. Imagine being in their shoes, being new to college and having no guidance about applying to classes and such. As corny as this sounds, whenever we have the ability to help, we should. This is essentially what the culture of service in our program promotes. We have the power to strengthen and better our communities in many, many different ways. The culture of service and the requirements just push us to do what should already be done.