My Volunteer Experience

My experiences has provided me with numerous opportunities to be involved with diverse people and situations, make mistakes, learn from them and teach those around me what I’ve learned. Making these mistakes, and having these experiences has helped me in my journey of discovering who I truly am as well as evolve as a person. As a sheltered freshman attending college, it can be easy to fall into the swimming pools of danger with the many activities, on and off campus that can be available to students. It’s an unfortunate situation when students drown in their erroneous decisions and suffer through their GPA during their junior and senior years. Many students do not realize how easy it is for their grade point average to decrease and how challenging …show more content…
My first volunteer experience was the Major’s Exploration Fair. This fair consisted of informing New Britain High school students about the importance of higher education and the majors, minors and programs of study available at Central Connecticut State University. Each volunteer had their own group of high school students, and it was our duty to encourage those students to have a focus in higher education. This experience was very fulfilling to me, and I personally felt it was my duty to inspire those students, as they are our future leaders. If I could positively impact at least one of those students then I’d be exultant with my choice to volunteer. This led me to volunteer in other ways, including the Good Neighbor Campaign. The Student Government Association (SGA) of CCSU put this campaign together to help mend the relationship between college students and the off campus residents. A group of CCSU students including myself knocked on the doors of those residents to discuss the importance of upholding the values of the New Britain community collectively, and aim to eliminate the negative stereotypes regarding CCSU’s students and their off campus behaviors. My role in this campaign was educate my peers and set an example on respecting our off campus neighbors. Volunteering has taught me the importance of perspective and engagement. Engagement can empower those around you, help create a sense of belonging and improve the confidence of those involved of the community. It can also open the minds of those around you, and alter their perspective on different aspects of life in a positive