On the topic of service…

Serving your community can mean anything from picking up trash on your way home from school to helping tutor kids attending underserved and underfunded schools. It means being able to affect the lives of the people living in your community in some way, no matter how small the deed is. I see my role in Baruch as a zig zagging forest of thorns that I have to somehow jockey my way through ultimately leading to a fire axe. That fire axe is a symbol of a position of influence within Baruch. A position that can cleave its way through the problems of the community and the school. Quite an analogy eh? With great power, comes great responsibility. – Ben Parker. As a newly minted Baruch Scholar, I have been endowed with the tools and privileges that allow me to best service the community as I think best.
I think that the culture of service breeds a sense of being a greater whole and allows us to conceptualize and adapt to greater serve our communities as a whole. It makes us feel like a part of a bigger network and how we by performing some seemingly meaningless service might improve the world around us little by little.