UF essay comments

<p>please write a concise narrative in which you describe a meaningful event, experience or accomplishment in your life and how it will affect your college experience or your contribution to the UF campus community. You may want to reflect on your ideas about student responsibility, academic integrity, campus citizenship or a call to service.</p>

<p>My volunteer work at Feeding America Tampa Bay has been a very meaningful experience in my life. I worked as a volunteer by helping to sort food to help stop poverty in the Tampa area. I feel that as a community we need to work together to help others out. Despite the extraordinary effort it will take by the community to assist in eliminating poverty it will be worth the sacrifice to make our community better. I believe it should be a goal for everyone to help contribute and help those who are in need and may not be doing as well as you are. As a current student I know others who may be struggling financially and cannot afford all the things that many of us take for granted. I feel it is my responsibility to help those who are less fortunate and to join others in the community to try and make a better life for people who may not have been given the advantages that I and others enjoy.</p>

<p>Cancer is one of the most deadly diseases in the world. In participating in Relay for Life the donations generated will go to the American Cancer Society and will be used to help people afflicted with cancer and also to help find a cure. Everyone needs to help stop cancer because it affects all one way or another. The spread of this disease across the world results in a decline in our population and brings heartbreak and pain to cancer victims and their loved ones. We all need to help stop cancer because the community is adversely affected in many different ways by this terrible disease.</p>

<p>I feel it is our service and responsibility to assist those in need. We should not be selfish and only concerned with the small world that we exist in. We need to look outside of ourselves and be concerned with those who through no fault of their own were raised in a bad environment and are not blessed with the luxuries that many of us have or who may have been harmed by a terrible disease. </p>

<p>I feel that as a responsible member of my community I need to be respectful and helpful to others. The experience of my volunteer work brought me a whole new perspective into the trouble some people face. A donation in time and money by everyone would help stop the problem of poverty in our world and help to stop cancer. With the continued support from our community we would not have people living on the streets and begging for money. I believe if people were not as close minded and selfish and were more generous to others this would help to eliminate poverty. Volunteerism can help those people who are in need and help those who are working to fight devastating diseases like cancer. The fight against cancer and the fight to eliminate poverty are important because they both have damaging effects on the community.</p>

<p>Start with a story about a specific experience at Feeding America Tampa Bay and then work your commentary around that. Something vivid and colorful that catches the reader’s attention. As it is, this essay is too generic; my eyes glazed over a few times.</p>

<p>^Agreed. Also, in my opinion, you come across as accusing and negative when you say, “I believe if people were not as close minded and selfish…” I know that you probably are not like this and aren’t trying to make it sound this way, but it sounds like you’re putting yourself on a pedestal because of your volunteer work while putting others down for not doing it. Again, don’t take that the wrong way because I’m sure that’s not how you meant it, I’m just putting it out there.</p>

<p>On the same note, I would focus more on specific ways the volunteer experience benefited you personally than trying to draw bigger conclusions about the world as a whole and stopping cancer, because they come across as a little overly ambitious.</p>

<p>Good luck! If you decide to change it, feel free to pm it or post it again, because I’d love to see what you do with it. There’s a lot of good ideas in there, it just needs a little more of a focus.</p>

<p>any other comments thx btw</p>

<p>Just turned in mine today as well :slight_smile: it sounds pretty good. You sound confident, but not obnoxiously confident. When I read it I was imagining someone saying it as a speech.</p>