To me, serving my community is an extremely important responsibility each person undertakes in his own way. Some choose to be hands-on in their approach and help local organizations in ventures such as fundraising, soup kitchen help, cleaning up their local environments and schools, and more. Others give back to their community in ways of donations and monetary contributions. I feel the responsibility as an honors student to give back to my community and to be the best role model I can be to represent the institution and the rewards brought from hard work and dedication. As a Baruch Scholar’s student, I have been awarded for with a tuition free scholarship and access to many things delegated and offered only to Baruch’s honors student body. The culture of the community service the Honors Program promotes parallels my individual approach in many ways. I always try my best to keep up with all of my work due at school, while simultaneously doing my part for my community at home. I like to help out at my local organizations and school by tutoring students and helping at fundraising and awareness events. I also support the local community events such as cancer research foundation events along with others. At Baruch, my community away from home, I choose to support my fellow student body in the same way I do at home. Specifically, I enjoy listening to guest speakers who inform and open discussions for debates on important elected topics within and outside of the Baruch community. Baruch offers many opportunities to get more involved in its community, and I’d like to continue to become more involved in many different aspects of the community within coming semesters. As I enter into each succeeding year of college, I plan on developing more and more of an involvement in giving back to the Baruch community. The culture of service the Honors Program promotes will hopefully be just the beginning of a long list of my engagements in giving back to my Baruch community, my community away from home.
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I think that it is great that you plan to become more involved with Baruch and the community. Good journal entry!
I agree completely with what you wrote, especially with trying to remain active in your own community. It’s not only important for people to support each other in their neighborhoods and different clubs/organizations, but it also makes us feel great! Whenever I volunteer at an event or tutor a younger student, I feel more motivated to continue helping out in the future.
I love that you refer to Baruch as your community away from home. I agree that it is our responsibility to use the opportunities provided by Baruch to give back to our communities. I also appreciate how you addressed that there are so many ways to give back and that we are not limited to any particular method of helping out.