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Name: Joseph Galperin

Freshman Seminar Course #: LC06

Name of Community Service Organization/Activity: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk

1. How did your community service work help the community? I helped lead and encourage the runners.

2. What were your initial reactions upon hearing that you would be engaging in a community service project? I was happy to know that I could help people who needed my help, and that all the classes required it since that means many more people were helped.

3. How did it make you feel to give your time and energy to others? I was pleased that I could help in any way, because I would have missed my chance to participate in the walk if it had not been a requirement for Freshman Seminar.

4. What did you learn about yourself, the people around you, and the service site? I learned how easy it is for someone to organize an event or contribute to an event.

5. What stands out as the best and/or most trying experiences that occurred while engaging in your community service project? What did you learn from these experiences? The experience that was simultaneously the best and most trying was high-fiving all of the runners. My hand was numb after about half an hour, partially due to the temperature, but I had a good time. I learned that I should be more enthusiastic when greeting the runners because my classmates and I are the only support they get while running.

6. How did engaging in this project relate to your education and the larger issues in society? I saw firsthand survivors of breast cancer so I better understood the uncontrollable detriments in society.

7. How did your community service experience relate to the “Leadership and Service” session? I had to take specific orders of where to stand and I occasionally led some of my peers to cheer for the runners.

8. How has your community service experience changed thinking, attitudes, and actions towards others, yourself, the community, and community service work as a whole? I’ve become more patient with people and I strive to improve my community so that everyone living here can have a more positive image.

9. How has your community service experience impacted you personally? What is the most important thing you learned about yourself throughout this experience? I realized how much I can help those around me, and that I am inclined to.

10. Were you satisfied with your experience overall? Why or why not? I was satisfied because I met some wonderful people and helped them raise money for charity.

11. Do you see yourself staying involved in the community in your college and adult years? Why or why not? I do, because I have been involved with charities before, and, besides, I would want someone to help me if I was in such a negative situation.

12. Sum up your service-learning experience in a one-or two-sentence headline.

My experience at Baruch College has definitely lived up to my expectations. Not only have I learned a lot about the business I want to work in, I have also found dozens of clubs all with their own special cultures and goals. The vast majority of clubs represents the diversity within Baruch; there are students with different career goals, life goals, national origins, and hobbies that create and run clubs to make Baruch the place that it is.

I think that my first semester at Baruch College went very well because I was prepared for all of the classes I needed to take. I will plan my schedule in accordance with my future career, and I have joined a few clubs that have people who share my interests. If I had to start my first semester over again, I think I would join more of the freshman events, and try to get to as many club meetings as possible as long as they were giving out free food.

Since I have started at Baruch College, I have learned how to balance a lot of different tasks in a day. I always have something I need to do when I get home, then there is my homework, club work, and my job. It was a learning experience, though it its definitely worth it, and I could not have enjoyed it more.

Enjoying myself is one of the most important things to me, but I do offer my help to anyone who really needs it. When no one else fills a role or somebody directly asks me for help I do what I can. I take on most tasks begrudgingly but silently, though if there is something that makes myself and a number of other people unhappy I will try to take care of it since nobody else will. I enjoy the simple pleasures in life, usually just eating and sleeping after days of severe sleep deprivation. My main goal here is to learn as much as I possibly can.