Personal Essay: Entering College

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Entering college can be tough; you have to learn how to live by yourself, you have to budget your time, and you have to make all new friends. For me all of that was true, but the part that gave me the most was making friends. I'm generally a very shy person and tend to let people come up to me but before the school year started I decided that I would push myself to join clubs and be the first to talk to people. So when the club fair started I decided that I would join a couple clubs, and the two that stood out to me were Alpha Phi Omega (APO) and Advocates for Disability Awareness Club(ADAC).
Ever since I can remember I have always loved doing community service and when I was in high school I really followed that passion. My first big …show more content…
I went with a group from my school and we were in Taos for a week building a house for a single mom and her two kids. While we were there we also volunteered at a goat farm where we raked leaves, a food pantry, and a couple other programs to make the most of our community service trip. Then in the spring of my sophomore year I was invited to join Sigma Sigma Chi, which is the community service sorority at my high school and I stayed in the group for the rest of my high school career. Through Sigma Sigma Chi I have had lots of community service opportunities; I volunteered at local fundraising events, held a stuffed animal drive for the local hospital that way they had toys to give to scared kids, raised money for the Boston’s Children's Hospital, and …show more content…
At the end of my sophomore year in high school I was offered to help with the summer special olympics at my school and I thought, why not. So I joined and I had a blast. I realized that I not only loved working with kids who have special needs but that I was kind of good at it, so I was on the team for the rest of high school. Going to my last special olympics meet last summer was very melancholy because although I loved working with the kids, it was my last special olympics. So when I was at the club fair I saw ADAC and knew right away that it was the club for me. I joined and I love it so much. We bring awareness to all kinds of different disabilities and we find ways to involve ourselves with the special needs departments at the local schools. I’m so happy that I joined ADAC because I am able to continue to work with kids with special

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