The Beauty of Volunteering

by Keara Dwyer
March 7, 2025

There are many ways we as students can get involved in our community regardless of whether it is in or out of school.

GCC has many clubs and activities that are always looking for new members. And if you feel like you don’t want to join a club, but you still want to help in some way, some clubs are also looking for volunteers. SEI here at GCC is constantly setting up different student engagement events around campus. Not only will helping around campus provide people with extra hands and make things easier on them, but you will be easy to remember, and it will help you in the future.

Helping others doesn’t always have to be about them, it can also be about you. Providing community service and volunteering within the community is a good way to show future employers and future schools that you enjoy helping others and you are a well-rounded adult.

Something as good as community service could very well be the difference between you and someone else getting hired for a certain job. It gives you a one up against others. Not to mention the fact that community service also gives you real world experience of what other people do in their daily jobs.

If you volunteer with a historian, you can learn more about local history than most people in your town do. If you volunteer at a horse ranch, you can learn how to care for horses. Wherever you volunteer, you can learn a new skill that you had never known before. And while doing it, you can lessen the workload of those other workers that work hard every day to perform at their best.

The good that you perform will also come back to you. Most people believe in bad and good karma. If you are one of those people, I’m sure good karma sounds a lot more appealing than bad karma. As they say, what goes around comes around.

When doing community service, you will learn new things about yourself. You will learn how to be kind and how to help others in desperate times. They will remember you forever and you will eventually be rewarded for your great help and actions.

Community service is also super fun. Depending on where you volunteer, you can do some pretty cool stuff that you never thought you would do in your entire life. Volunteering can change not only your life, but others too. The community needs more volunteers now than ever.

In a time now where no one wants to volunteer, be the person that stands up and helps. It will make a difference. Your actions matter, and they will forever be greatly appreciated.