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beautiful, His dorm room is so nice, So many fresh cafeteria choices, never do you constantly hear Johnny just loves math were so glad he’s in such a good program”(Sobel,2013) The type of college Germany provides is solely based on a potential for learning with zero spending on the physical experience that Americans want to be…

the rest of their lives. However, some of this is true, a lot of it is wrong. College is so much more than this. The purpose of a college education is to prepare you to take your place in the economy, prepare you for a full life and for lifelong learning, and to prepare you to be a Christian leader throughout the rest of your life. Although these assumptions all tie into what college is about, to me it is even more than these. The primary purpose of my college education is to discover myself…

Ever since I was a little kid, I always heard my parents talk about how they needed to start saving for my college. That seemed unimportant to me because I knew that I wouldn’t start college for many years. Both of my parents went to college without having a large financial backing so the concept of saving for college never seemed relevant to me. When I was a little bit older, I began to understand why it was important to start saving money. My uncle, who became an optometrist, had many…

Though I did well in high school, I didn’t have a motivation to go to college. First, I was born in a country where college education is worthless without family contacts, and second, I didn’t realize the world I was living in and was lazy. I was lazy, never enjoyed studying, but did well in high school simply because I was constantly under pressure from my mother to do so. I was born in Georgia, the country in Eastern Europe. It was a part of the Soviet Union and suffered enormously when the…

all the group members see how they could help volunteer in a community setting where they would work with others but still play a vital role in the end product. While some members, like Kelsey and Brayden, explained that they liked working by themselves to tailor recipes based on how they like it, this similarity provided an opportunity for us leaders to point out different ways the members could still benefit and spend time in the community even if the members make the food on their own. For…

As members of our high school’s Key Club, a community service international group, we pride ourselves in community service and our ability to enjoy the service projects we commit ourselves to. The benefits we reap from taking a part in community service goes beyond the mere hours for a sheet; we gain the morale and communication skills that the “real world” expects us to live up to. However, making community service a graduation requirement would make students dread the act, viewing service more…

Riverview Gardens is unique in that it is self-sustaining organization. Riverview Gardens offers a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program which allows community members to purchase a box of organic produce, each week for 24 weeks. For community members who cannot afford a CSA share, Riverview Gardens offers a Workshare program. It is similar to the CSA share, however, it offers low-income people the chance to volunteer…

Community service hours that are treated with the respect they deserve and instead of being mandated, should be celebrated. Mandatory community service hours are too stressful for students. Instead of focusing on academic work, students are too focused on getting their community service hours done. This issue can be solved by making community service encouraged. Community service hours will not necessarily need to be done, but will be highly promoted by the teachers so there is still a…

changed my overall attitude of how I view the Air Force. It has allowed me to get a better insight on how things are run in the Air Force. AFJROTC has allowed me to build my character and leadership skills through structure, discipline, activities and community service. AFJROTC builds character and leadership through discipline and structure. AFJROTC does so by creating a certain set of rules with certain punishments if you don’t follow them. This class helps you learn that punishment is a…

• SUMMARIZE/SYNTHESIZE One of the important learnings for me from this course has been to question my role in service learning and at the place where I volunteer. The first few themes for this quarter talked about the motivations for service and self-awareness of our social location. Especially, the reading by Johnson, motivates me to think about the privileges and power that I have over the other people, and how I could use that privilege to help people. I would say, before these readings, I…