High School Volunteering Essay

High school has been more than a center for academics in my experience, although the first couple years of my high school education started out that way. After being inducted into National Honor Society and getting so much encouragement to involve myself in volunteering, I came to understand how helping others freely can make an impact on the community and even myself. Every day, millions experience hardship; therefore, millions need to help in any way they can. That is why serving others is so important. Even with all the good in the world, there is the same amount of bad. With the help of others, with the help of volunteers, the bad will not outweigh the good. Each year, I have given my service to events like Super Saturday (a church-led day of yard service to those who can’t do the labor themselves), the Turkey Trot (a 5k run held each year on Thanksgiving), the Blood Drives held multiple times each …show more content…
I have experienced the positive benefits of volunteering in myself and in my community. Being involved is something that I believe every student and sometimes even every working adult needs to strive towards to better themselves. Although it is not always the most well off financially who are always giving the full extent of themselves to their community, it is usually the most content with their lives and the ones who always keep positivity in all that they do. I wish to have this same outlook on my life and the same contentedness towards my life involvements. Volunteering will remain important to me, especially after seeing all the benefits it has wrought in the small community I grew up in. I will remain a steady blood donor and community worker for my future community and especially for my future school. For many years, I have been wanting to serve other communities through a mission trip, and I hope that IUPUI will give me the resources to be able to accomplish