Dave Eggers Serve Or Fail

In Serve or Fail, the author, Dave Eggers, brings up the point that community service should be required in colleges. According to Eggers, “college is too long-it should be three years-and even with a full course load and part-time jobs there are many hours in the days and weeks that need killing.” He believes that with all of the free time that students have, they should do something productive and helpful like community service. Additionally, Eggers thinks that if colleges were to require community service, then it would not only improve their working environment, but it would also touch and improve each student. I would agree with Eggers because I have found out that when colleges require community service, it increase their students’ self-efficiency, boost their teamworking skills, and helps them find a sense of responsibility. …show more content…
As a student, I always lacked strong self-efficiency. I would always doubt myself, and would never be certain that I could get anything done, however, this all changed when I got the opportunity to work with my church youth group. We were given a task to build a shelter home in Chetumal, Mexico. Our youth leader told us that we had three weeks to build it, and this made me doubt that we would get it done in time, considering that we only had 18 people. Even with the given circumstances, I still decided to give it a try and work hard. Every day we would get up and work really hard for hours, hoping to get it done. After three weeks, to my surprise, we finished building the church. It was at that moment that I realized that anything was possible. I realized that if you work hard and put in a lot of effort, then you will be able to get the job