Journal Entry #2: Baruch Community
October 9, 2013
Community.
To serve you community always confused me in its meaning. What does it mean to serve your community? Does it mean physically going out and volunteering or even just hanging out in the community? I had done volunteering help others as well and hang around the community with friends. But what does it mean to contribute to the community? The Baruch community is another community that I would have to find my ground in.
To me the Baruch community is a second home that I need to find my place in. Second month into the school year, and I’m still back up with all the stress that college life bring. I feel like a beginning the college life is starting a new journey of exploration. Baruch has many opportunities, but I feel small compare to the vast options. At the same time, I feel that I am restricted. I always play within my circle and it is hard to expand outward.
At the Baruch community, I want to get a feel of the new community before I become a part of it. In the future, after I understand college and its requirement, I would like to contribute something too. At the moment, I am not to sure about that I going to contribute, but what ever it is it would have my touch in it.
Being a scholar doesn’t change my view of things. To me, I am just another student. Being a scholar only gives us a higher standard, but that does not change how we actually are.
October 14th, 2013 at 10:37 pm
Ying,
You bring up some of the struggles with community that I first had when I entered Baruch. Trust me when I say that you are not alone when you ask these questions, and they are very good questions to ask.
Maybe, before going out and looking at what community means in the grand scope of things, you can look over your experience and see what volunteering meant for you. Because there are so many communities out there and an equal amount of ways to get involved, it really becomes a matter of what you take or make of the experience.
I can try and write in this comment as much as textually possible about expanding your circle and areas where you can expand to, but I’d much rather do a show and tell. If you choose to attend this preview, I would do my best to show you some of the things that are worth the while. 🙂