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The way our community service helped our community was the walk helped not only to increase the awareness of the dangers and harms of lupus, but it also encouraged people to exercise.

My initial reactions to hearing that i would be engaging in an activity that would help our community was excitement. I was excited to be part of something bigger than myself and that I would have the opportunity to help out my community by giving something back.

Again spending time and energy felt good. It was nice to be doing something that not only I enjoyed, but also something i knew would better out community.

I learned that there are many people that would give a lot of their time and energy to do something they believe is right.

Well, the community service didn’t really change my way of thinking significantly, however it did help increase my aware of the importance of finding cure for lupus since it affects many lives.

The most important thing I learned throughout this community service was what lupus is, which is an autoimmune disease where the body’s immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue.

Yes, I do see myself involved in the community because if i do so not only will it benefit the community, but it will also benefit me when i decide to look for a job i will be able to say that i gave back to the community.

On Oct. 22, my group went on a walk help by the The Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR), which is a national voluntary health organization based in New York City.

On December 6, I attended a workshop called “Networking: Is it Who or What You Know?” It talked about the importance of networking and how to do it better. Networking is about the connections with different people who can help you in some different aspects, such as finding a job, updating the information, or getting new perspective. A strong networking can bring a lot of advantages to a person, and we can learn lots of things from other people.

There were two instructors in this workshop; they said that we have some different areas to build up our networking, such as family, schoolmates, and some professional organizations. Or we could find something we are really interested in. Actually, we need to check out what we really like, stand out, and then do it. When we do it, we will find some people have the same interest; it is easier to develop networking with those people.

In order to develop networking, first we should connect to people, meet people and communicate with them. We can ask them some questions and think about how to continue to communicate with them. So we need to find out the level of a person, and what he really likes to talk about. If we have a large networking, we should have a good schedule for that. Learned to how to do good time management is also an important step for developing networking.

For some reason, we can’t give everybody everything that they want, but we can give something instead. If someone wants a job, we can’t give him a job, but we can tell him if there is an opportunity, I will tell you. It is better than to say that I can’t give you a job. We should be helpful to those we network with as possible as we can. We help others, we will be remembered, and when we are in need, others can help us as well. But we should ask for things that people can definitely get. For example, if we want some information for a company, we can ask if you know someone work in the company, then we can build up other networking with the people work in the company. Don’t make other to be in an awkward situation.

I think the workshop is informative and useful. We can ask questions, and then discuss in it. Actually the networking is important in our life. We should work for it. And I am pleasant to attend this workshop.

Our group decided to join the Breast Cancer Walk in Prospect Park as our community service.  We went to Prospect Park to walk for breast cancer, not only our group, but also hundreds of people walked for fundraising for breast cancer at that day. It was a big event.

When I first heard that I would be engaging in a community service project with a group, I thought it might be a good opportunity to help people in need, I was glad to help others. I thought we should do as much as we could. Finally our group decided to walk for breast cancer. It took us about three hours walking for four miles. When I first heard that we needed to walk for four miles, I didn’t think I could finish it. At the beginning, I start to feel tired. In order to help others, we should persevere unremittingly, so we never gave up, and kept walking until we finished. I was exhausted, but when I finished it, I felt a sense of accomplishment. I found all people might have unlimited potential. If we wanted to do something, then took the action and redouble our efforts, no matter how tough it would be, we would overcome all the difficulties and accomplish it finally.

Since we did the community service with a large group, there were many other groups did the community service with us as well, the leadership became important at that situation. I thought we always needed a leadership to organize us, so we could be more effective and efficient.

I thought the community service experience changed me a lot. It leads me to greater dedication. Even if it would spend my time and energy for helping others, after that, I could feel content in my life. I thought I should be generous in giving help. And my attitude of life became more optimistic. The community service experience built up my willpower as well.

I was satisfied with my experience overall, even though it was an exhausted task, after finishing it, I got the sense of accomplishment, and through our efforts, we helped the community. Our efforts were not in vain. I would continue doing some community service, because I thought I could be happy and content while helping others. The world would be full of love if all of us could help each other.

On Oct. 22, I got the
chance to know Lupus by joining a walking hold by The Alliance for Lupus
Research (ALR), which is a national voluntary health organization based in New
York City that was founded in 1999, for the first time. The reason I did this
community service was that it was a requirement of my freshman seminar class.

When I first heard that
I would be engaging in a community service project, I felt that was too much
trouble, since I had to waste my time and energy for others in order to
complete this meaningless project.

The goals of this
walking for Lupus were to cause more people’s attentions to the disease Lupus
and encourage them to contribute either money or time to support the studies
and patients. When I got there, I was shocked, since there were hundreds of
people, including elders and children, standing there and preparing themselves
for the walking. The point was most people showed up that day didn’t suffer
from Lupus, instead, they were there just because they wanted to try their best
to help. This made me realize how selfish I was when I tended to refuse to give
my time and energy to do this community service.

During the whole
process of walking, I was talking with some people who had been involved in
this walking for several years. All of them thought that it was a pleasure to
contribute what they had to help others, and they were all glad to keep
participating this walking every year. Their generousness encouraged me to care
more about others and help them as well.

After I finished this
community service project, I changed my thinking, attitudes and actions towards
others, myself, the community and community service work as a whole. I started
to think that all of us came together and formed our community, and everyone in
our community was important. Therefore for the development and improvement of
our community, we definitely needed community service to help those groups of
people who were in trouble, and we should participate more community services
instead of being selfish and caring only ourselves as well.dmdmffHow has your community service
experience impacted your personallyndsaa

In a word, this service-learning
experience was useful and helpful. I was satisfied with my experience overall,
since I had learnt a lot of things and found a way to improve myself personally.
Therefore I think I will be staying involved in the community during my college
and adult years.

For question 1-4
On October.22, our group members, including Yue Liu, Hua Wang and Ying Zhang joined a community service as volunteer. The community service is “walk with us to cure lupus”, people want to advocate that the social focus this disease by parading. I just realized that people who get lupus which is a skin disease and need help. I thought it is worth to take my time to help them. At same time, I felt pleasure to have opportunity to do it. I learned that everyone has ability to help others or doing something for our community. I found there were more kind persons in this world.
For question 5-6
Even though those people who join this community service only have little power, they still could have great influence to this social when they combine their force. I began to understand that doing a simple thing is also benefit to the public. Nowadays, there are many education campaigns in different academic school.
For question 7
Through this community service experience, I found that a leader play an important role in an organization. There was a lot people walk to cure lupus. Therefore, we need a few managements to lead us and work field administrate service.
For question 8
I always believed that community service is one of activities which give a hand to people who need help before. Now, I know that it is not only helping others, but also it is a experience and chance to improve myself, develop my relationship and enrich my life.
For question 9
This community service had affected me. First, I was really surprised that a simple community service makes many people to join. It shows that what kind of position the community service in this country. Second, I feel that people has a positive attitude to life and health because of the topic of this community service which is walk with us to cure Lupus. The most important thing I learned is paying an attention to health and life.
For question 10-11
I was satisfied my community service overall, because I learned something outside of class and have a chance to explore this social. Moreover, I realized that I stay involved in community in college, because there are full of help between you and your friend. Helping others become a bridge to keep relationships.
For question 12
Let us cherish life and do your bit to help others.

       This is my first time to act as volunteer and I choose to join a walking for lupus which is called The Alliance for Lupus Research(ALR) on October 22,2011.Basically, it is a national voluntary health organization in New York City that was founded in 1999. The walk aims to draw people’s attention to the Lupus and make a contribution to the Lupus research. In my opinion, this walk can awaken people  to  the fact that they could do something for the community and society.

         Actually, I felt surprised when I initially heard that I have to do community service in order to pass the class, because I have never done a volunteer job before and got no idea about it. Consequently, I have to follow my group members’ decision, and that’s my initial reason for choosing this community service.

          In the beginning, my entire mind was thinking that this project would be boring and I would not enjoy myself during this walking. Nevertheless, I changed my mind after I actually pay my attention to this walking, and I didn’t regret to give my time and energy to engage in this walking. the reason was that I found a lot of people join this walking with their whole family and they enjoyed themselves with great passions, even though they didn’t have any relationships with those patients, and then I was so inspired by their behavior and their speech that they could encourage Lupus patients to  fight against the disease and focus on the positive outcomes.

             My most trying experience in this community service project was to walk through the whole journey as possible as I can. However, I could not finish entire miles because I felt extremely tired after the several miles. This experience taught me that when people tried their best to do something, it did not make any sense about the outcomes. In addition, this experience changed my ways of thinking, attitudes and actions.We should appeal other people to contribute to those people who need help in society, also we should have a positive attitudes on everything. Moreover, I learnt that we need to develop a good skill on team work, because we should work with a lot of people in order to deal with different kind of cases when we lived in the same society.

             Overall, I satisfied with my experience because after I took part in this event, my previous views about the society were totally changed, people tried to utilize different sources to corporate with each other to help the lower-class, so that the people from lower-class could reduce suffering in their rest of lives.

             Throughout this community service project, I realize that I am also on a way to improve myself while helping others. As a result, I am looking forward to participate in more community service during my college and adult years.

             The happiness comes from helping others.

On Dec.1^st,
I attended a workshop called “Job Search Strategies” hold by the Starr Career
Development Center during club hour. This workshop talked about some useful
strategies for college students to search for jobs. As a freshman, I am
definitely a beginner of this, so it is really helpful for me to attend this
workshop, even though I may not get a chance to use those strategies I learnt
from that workshop until two or more years later.

At the beginning, the
instructor showed us some common mistakes we made and gave us some suggestions
for them. One of them was that we were kind of unrealistic and her suggestion
was that we should be realistic by knowing clearly what kinds of jobs we were
looking for and interested in.

The other one was that
we were limited by ourselves. We thought that if our majors were accounting, we
could only be accountants in the future. However the instructor showed us an
example, that a company hired a philosophy major student to be its manager, because
it wanted his skills of interpreting and analysis.  Therefore her suggestion was that we should
think more diversity by working something that was not just related to our
majors, and at the same time, working in other states instead of staying here
in New York City if possible.

At last, the instructor
also talked about the informational interviewing which was just asking someone
about what they did. She told us that the knowledge gained from an
informational interview could help us determine which courses and
qualifications were necessary for specific career paths, the types of job or
companies best suited for us. The most important thing she said was that
informational interviewing could aid our job search, therefore it was really necessary
for us to get to know more about informational interviewing.

Overall I think this
workshop “Job Search Strategies” is very useful for me to search for a job
after graduating from college. Therefore I am really happy that I got the
chance to attend this workshop, and I hope I can hear more workshops hold by Starr
Career Development Center in the future.

Last week, I joined a workshop which called “Job search strategies” on Dec.1st. The workshop shows that how to search your career in efficient way by using different strategies or resource and how to prepare the informational interviewing when you apply a job. Also the instructor utilized more easy way to explain those materials about the job search. However, I really learned a lot of information and ideas form this workshop.

First of all, we should figure out who we are. In other word, it means that we need know the position that we interested or we process. We could research ourselves, including the values, interests, personality, and skill. It looks like we have to understand what we need or want when we began to apply a job. It was really more helpful and efficient for us to research a job. On the other hand, keep a positive attitude is a most important thing when we stared to find a career. For example, we could keep dreams and open new possibility, instead of being an unrealistic and rigid.

In additional, how can we find out the job in the market while there are full of several of resource and information? We usually use some website in the internet to do research. There are also many websites for the jobs, such as occupation outlook of handwork, career info net, business week, and career journal. What is more, we could make research through the newspapers and industry journal.

Last one, the informational interviewing part has a great impact on searching job. It is asking someone about what they do and think about relationship building. Moreover, an informational interview can help you discover jobs that are not publicly advertised, expand your knowledge of job market in the field you want to explore. Another benefit is to make yourself a more qualified candidates and make support for your job research. However, it is an easy and efficient way to learn about a career.

Ultimately, I am pleasure that I have this opportunity to visit “Job search strategies” workshop, because I obtain lots of information about careers, which it is advantage for me to search a job in future.

     I went to a workshop call “Job Search Strategies” on December 01 during the Club Hours. It’s a workshop offered by the Starr Career Development Center. Basically, this workshop taught us some important strategies to find a job. Even though I am just a freshman, I think it’s important for me to start thinking of my future earlier, which can give me a clearer goal during college.

     I think some points the instructors informed to us are very important. She suggested us to be realistic and know about our interest when we are looking for a job. She also pointed out that it was much harder to find a job in this economics. Alternative, she suggested us to think more diversity, such as working outside of New York State or in another country. I think that’s true, we can’t limit ourselves within New York area.     

     Personal pitch is another strategy that I learn from the workshop. It is a 30-second to 2-minute long infomercial about you containing the most important and relevant information you want the listener to know. As the instructor said “We are the products in the job market, we need to let the buyers know what’s our features.”  It’s necessary for us to create our own personal pitch before the interview. A good personal pitch can increase our chance to get a job. She also informed the formal social network called Linkedin for us. Unlike Facebook, it’s a formal business network. It’s an important building block for our people networking. Besides, she also taught us not to do silly things on our Facebook profile, because lots of companies would take a look at our Facebook profile when they make their decision. Even though most of us think it’s impossible, but actually they do.

     Overall, this workshop is informative and helpful, even freshman can benefit from it. After this workshop, I know that actually the Starr Career Development Center offers lots of different workshops to help us, such as teaching us to write a resume, preparing us for interview, etc. I definitely need to attend those kinds of workshops more at Baruch. In college, I can’s only pay attention to my academic work.

Gong, Tayeba, and I went to an elementary school in Chelsea. The school was not far away from Baruch so after staying in the library, I walked to the school and met with the group. Our job was to help taking care of elementary students while we take them to Rubin Museum of Art and tour as well. There were about seven kids and nine adults including our group. One adult, or two, was assigned to one student.

When I first signed up for this community service, I thought that it would be a great way to meet elementary students and tour Rubin Museum. I was very excited to be involved in the community service. And I was happy to spend my time and energy to help the students.

Other people who were involved were very excited as well. This lady I got to know was in charge of two kids and she talked to them as if she knew them for a long time. It was hard for me to connect with my kid that I was in charge.

The most trying experience was to connect with the kid that I had to take care of. She barely talked to me even when I asked her questions. It seemed as though she needed more time to connect with strangers. Others seemed very talkative on the other hand.

By doing the community service, I realized that there are less people to be in charge of children’s afterschool activities. It is one of the larger issues in society. There is no one to supervise children. Therefore, there are less and less afterschool activities. It can be a big problem since by having activities after school children experience more and think more as well.

My community service experience related to the leadership and service session because we had to lead children as guides. We had to make sure that no children snuck out or left alone.

Doing community service as whole made it more fun. When I volunteered at a public library, I organized returned materials alone. Having someone with you, no matter what you do, is always fun, I think. And the idea of helping someone is wonderful as well.

Even though I was not able to connect with the assigned kid personally, I was very satisfied. I completed my job and achieved the goal of taking care of kids safely.

I do see myself staying involved in the community. I am actually thinking of going and helping out again before Christmas. And if there are any opportunities to volunteer, I would love to do it again.

As a one sentence headline I would sum up the experience as “Three Baruch Students Help elementary School Students with Creativity and Guidance.”