I refused to do my fifteen hours of service in my junior year, even when I was told that if I did not complete my junior service requirements I would have to waste one hundred hours in senior year. Therefore I was looking forward to senior year less and less as the days went by, yet I continued to refuse to do my junior hours.

I heard the ‘reasons’ we were given in service class, as to why we were required to do service, however, I did not see the significance of doing service. Nobody in the real world volunteers, because you can’t pay bills without an income. The whole thing seemed completely immoral to me, and I fel

My personal opinion is that service is immoral, and it should be against the law to force somebody, let alone a whole group of young men, to waste their time doing such a thing. I think service should not be a requirement at the Prep, especially not when parents are paying forty thousand dollars for their children to go there.

The staff in the Hebrew Home, other than the people who worked in the volunteer department, did not seem welcoming whatsoever to top off the whole thing. I was given dirty looks by just about everybody as I walked through the hallways, and I’m almost positive it was because I was basically the only white guy in the whole place.

I have no intention to do any form of service in the future on my own accord, and the only future I have in volunteering would be if I were to get arrested for something, and had no other option but to volunteer again.

My service experience has had no effect on my ‘relationship with god’ simply because I was an atheist when I started here, and I am still an atheist to this day, just a bit angrier. I am just glad th

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