Here at my campus, I have become highly involved within volunteering on and off campus by doing service projects. As I am approaching my junior year, it is my goal to become more involved with the service leader program than I have been the past two years. There is a requirement that I must meet 150 service hours in order to receive my scholarship. Not only do I want to complete those 150 service hours, this year I want to reach past 400 service hours. My freshmen year I had completed around 250 service hours. This past year when I was a sophomore I did not complete near as many since I was gone a semester for my internship.
Before college, I was not much of a volunteer. Not because I didn't want to volunteer, I just never really had the opportunities to step out and and volunteer in my community. Sure I donated blood, worked blood drives, raked leaves and shoveled snow every now and then, but it was nothing compared to what I have done here at the college and what I am involved in.
During the school year, I spend a lot of my time at college participating in the Service Leader Program and completing projects and volunteering my time to multiple organizations. In my later blogs I will talk about my service projects and what organizations I am involved with and what . The Service Leaders to me are like one big family. I know I can go to this group for ideas, advice, problems, etc., I know they will be there for me and they will have good insight. As leaders of this campus, they will not steer me in the wrong direction.
One of the biggest questions I get asked here on campus is what does service mean to mean me... Service to me, means to take your time to help someone else in need and make sure that they are taken care of before myself. I don't volunteer for the status of helping someone else or making myself look good, I volunteer because it's a great feeling knowing that I can help someone else out besides myself.
I had asked two of my friends who are involved in the Service Leader Program and asked them what service had meant to them.
Suzie: "Taking the time to put someone else's needs before your own"
Katie: "Helping someone less fortunate then myself. Making a positive impact on another's life"
As a Service Leader, we volunteer our times to help people of all ages, animals, and help the environment around us. Not only do we volunteer we attend meetings and plan on what other service projects we can do and how we can help better those around us. Service Leaders has become a positive impact in my life and I want to give back to others what the world has given to me. In my next blogs I am going to introduce some of the service projects I do, the projects I want to get involved in and the projects I want to start up.
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