Monthly Archives: November 2011

Name: Maxwell Michael
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 to encourage the runners.
2. What were your initial reactions upon hearing that you would be engaging in a community service project? I was excited to know that I would be able to do something good for the community.
3. How did it make you feel to give your time and energy to others? It felt good to give my time to a noble cause.
4. What did you learn about yourself, the people around you, and the service site? I learned that there are a lot of people who want to work towards eradicating a disease.
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 best experience was encouraging the runners at the event because it made me realize how many people actually attended the event.
6. How did engaging in this project relate to your education and the larger issues in society? I now better understand how many people are affected by breast cancer.
7. How did your community service experience relate to the “Leadership and Service” session? I was given my assignment and then acted as a leader to actually perform my duty.
8. How has your community service experience changed thinking, attitudes, and actions towards others, yourself, the community, and community service work as a whole? It hasn’t really, i’ve always enjoyed working with people.
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 a small action could effect a large amount of people.
10. Were you satisfied with your experience overall? Why or why not? I was satisfied because helped an important cause.
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 I don’t see that changing in the future

My Baruch Experience has not really lived up to my expectations. I expected a little more out of the school and the whole environment in general. As of now, its just high school with harder work and a long commute. I do hope that I learn to like Baruch a lot more and get more out of it than I am right now. My first semester at Baruch was alright. I had to do a lot of work and it was not much fun most of the times. I did enjoy something but I did not really like the classes that I had to take besides business law. If I could do my whole semester over again I would probably study more. I did not really study which I need to work on in order to have more success. I have changed because I became more responsible because everything I do I’m on my own so I definitely became more responsible and independent. I hope to achieve a lot at my time in Baruch College.

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.

I attended the breast cancer walk but I was also one of the people who could not find me class at first. I showed up thinking  I would easily find them and we would walk together but then I learned that we would be cheering on the walkers when I eventually found my group. I thought it was going to be really boring cheering them on but it actually wasn’t and I felt good about attending this for a really good cause. I plan on attending another in the future but maybe walking this time.

The breast cancer walk that we attended on October 16th was a great experience. Well, it was extremely cold at first, and I was confused as to where i had to go to meet everyone and what exact time they left but I didn’t make it there. I just stood, cheering for walkers by myself but I very quickly started talking to people around me. Small talk at first, but then they we really got into the conversation. I learned about someone’s sister and someone’s aunt who had breast cancer. It was sad, but it made me feel great to be doing something for a real cause.

So kinda forgot to do this sooner but I attended the breast cancer walk. It was definitely different then what I expected. I thought we would be the walkers that are helping to support breast cancer but little did I know our job was to cheer people on and let them know what side of the rope to be on. Let’s just say I was less than excited to hear this at first but once the event got going it wasn’t as bad as I had thought it would be. People were excited to be doing this and that made me excited to wanna cheer them on. The event was surprisingly more excited than I thought it would be, go figure.