Journal #2: My Role in the Baruch Community

I believe my role as a Baruch Scholar in the Honors Program is to utilize the most of my efforts and maximize my success. Although this is on a more personal level, I also believe that my abilities as a student can help out Baruch in a number of ways. We are here to serve the community, and I am quite glad that the project that we are doing for Freshman Seminar is involved with community service. This demonstrates that we’re not just in the Honors Program for our brains and intellect, but we’re also part of it to help others. While I don’t believe that the Honors Program is wholly for personal gain, it is definitely an advantage to us in getting to places that we may be striving to reach. However, there is also the community as a whole to account for and our services should always be available to them. After all, the Honors Program has made so many accommodations for us; the least we can do is give something back as a thank-you.

The culture that seems to surround Baruch is that of a closely connected community of students who help each other and others outside the community itself. We become better people by giving back to the community, and I believe this plays a major role in our college lives. Academics is certainly important and we should certainly not neglect that aspect, but that should not be our only objective as students and I am quite sure that the Honors Program emphasizes this. In the end, our role as students should be that of academic excellence as well as a strong dedication to helping out the community.