Surviving College 101 Section: FTA

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.

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.