During high, I would always help my teachers and my classmates regardless of whether I needed service hours or not.
During high, I would always help my teachers and my classmates regardless of whether I needed service hours or not.
Ever since I was little, I’ve always wanted to help people. Being a Boy Scout gave me the opportunity to do so. When I was eight years old I joined the cub scouts which began my life long campaign of helping people. I started off learning to take the oath to serve the people weather it be by the organization or myself. I assisted by selling popcorn for charity organizations ( The San Antonio Food Bank and The Knights of Columbus) or for money that we needed for our camp out trips.…
Most days I stayed afterschool and assisted the Meals on Wheels program. We provided care for young children and collected and prepared meals with food from donations and the local community garden that I also assisted with. I was also active in the yearly food and clothing donation. Each year was a success , we even received thank you cards from shelters we helped because of how massive our donations was. Im extremely thankful to have attented a Jesuit high school.…
Fade into the scene, a small crowded courtroom filled to the brim with mock trial participants heatedly debating whether my fictional client committed first degree reckless homicide. A particularly virulent opponent is questioning her witness. She is flummoxed, requiring a vital print out of evidence when, impulsively, my binder snaps open and I hand her the necessary document. My teammates chortle because this is classic Michaela: a girl so unfailingly helpful and good-natured that she helps out a stranger competing against her without a thought.…
I have helped many people so far in my life, because I always try my hardest to do a good turn daily, as the boy scout slogan says. In boy scouts, I never stop helping the other boys in the troop feel welcomed to boy scouts. Through my service projects, I have learned helping others will have positive effects on you. One example of this was a project I did called the YES Program. I was part of this project last year, and it is by far the best project I have ever done.…
Volunteering for not only school events, but for the Manitowoc community made myself aware of the changes a group of people can do to improve their community and the lives of those in need. Service has brought to my attention how one act of selflessness,…
How I Ended Up Here I found the sleek, black briefcase on the bus. There was no one else on the bus when I boarded. No one got off as I got on. There were only empty wires where the surveillance cameras would normally be.…
There are a couple of obstacles that have played a major role in me becoming who I am today. I've had naysayers trying to negatively influence my thoughts, and crush my dreams by saying that said I will never amount to anything, or that I should give up on my dreams and get realistic with my goals. A couple years ago I was a completely different person. I was out of shape physically, my academic performance was very poor, and I had a terrible attitude. I improved greatly in athletics and my academic career.…
In high school, I was also a part of Key Club which is a club devoted to community service. In this club, we would help donate money for organizations, help our school with different activities, and raise awareness for many issues in our nation and around the world. I have also helped my grandfather in West Virginia who has Parkinson’s disease. Even though this was family related, I still found what it meant to put others in front of myself and the true meaning of volunteering to do a hard job. With my grandfather, he can barely do anything himself so when I was around I would fix his food, get his Dopamine ready every 3 hours, help dress him, take him anywhere…
How did you get here? I’ve been a lot of places in my life, experienced a lot of things, heard a lot of stuff and I could remember exactly where I have been, what my experiences were and what I heard; thus, this time, I found myself in a place where I had no idea how I got there. Lonely and broken hearted, I began to ask myself “How did you get here?”…
It All Started Here The subtle sweaty feeling on my back invades my uniform and sends a haunting chill down my spine as the wind picks up and I am overwhelmed with a combination of pure fear and adrenalin. The starting line coordinators instruct us to take our marks. I quickly shed my sweats off before jumping into my blocks in my lane.…
Changing my community in a positive way for me means revamping the educational system. Education is an essential tool needed to succeed and climb the social ladder. Without the proper education, young youth lack the basic academic curriculum and tend to turn to other outlets with negative outcomes- leading to institutionalization. The educational system is corrupt in various ways, and in my opinion, often robs our youth from an opportunity to succeed. There are teens who are in the 6th grade and read on at a 3rd grade level.…
Since highschool, I've always loved running through nature and the various hiking trails around my area. Even when I wasn't running, I would d go through these areas just for the tranquil feeling it gives me. However, the more I explored these existing and new locations, I'd see increasing amounts of trash left from other hikers and runners who traversed these trails. I did what I could to pick up any trash I saw, and one day I decided to take an even bigger step into improving my community. I joined the California State Park Foundation's Park Champions program, a program that aims to improve the quality of our beautiful state parks in California.…
The community I live in now has changed my entire life. When I first moved down here, I was lonely, depressed, and would cry every single night for months. I would wonder why I was being punished. Once I tried making the best of it, however; things started to look up. My life wouldn’t be the way it is right now if I had never moved.…
What Made Me As a 17 year old, I don’t have many opportunities to have a life changing instances. Now, everyone has these experiences; here are the stories that shaped me. That made me who I am today and possibly had a massive effect on my life. One of the main things that shaped me growing up was not having a father. Since the age of about 3 I really didn't have a father figure.…
What have you done to make your school or your community a better place? 370 “With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don 't seem like such a bad thing to me to want to put a little bit of it back together.” This quote from the recent film Hacksaw Ridge embodies my sentiment that brightening up someone’s day is the best feeling in the world for me. This desire to help others prompted me to volunteer for two years at UCLA hospital to help transport patients. Hospital patients often deal with severe pain and sometimes loneliness, and I knew that giving some of my time could improve their moods and outlooks.…