Switched-On :: Blog

Community service is required in some schools to pass, and you must get a specific amount. Not many of us always want to do it, but there are ways in which it becomes very fun. I enjoy volunteering at animal shelters where there are many animals that need help being cared for. There are many things that you can have fun doing, from helping families, children, to animals you just need to find the place that’s good for you. I enjoy and love fostering dogs and help them get adopted it’s what I do, as well as training them basic commands. It helps me gain experience and have fun while getting many ours of community service as well. Do things to help your community, yourself, and others. It can be fun and a good learning experience all at once.
- Stefannie

For us northern-hemisphere-dwellers not lucky enough to live somewhere that doesn’t see temperatures below 60, winter is entering its most inhospitable time. Fingers, toes, and ears are going numb left and right. Noses are stinging, eyes watering, and lips are turning into freakish things that require a dose of chapstick every few minutes. In short, it sucks. But odds are, no matter how unpleasant this winter is, someone has it worse than you. When your shoes are ruined by salt and snow, or you don’t want to wear your jacket because it makes you look like a puffy approximation of a human being, keep in mind that other people would love just to own shoes or a jacket like yours. And while it’s nice to think this, you can do something about it, too. There are a bunch of organizations that will take coat donations, if you have an extra one lying around.
- Will

Recently, anonymous donors have been paying off layaway accounts at Kmarts for the families who were unable to afford Christmas gifts on their own. There are a couple of occurrences at Walmart stores as well. Many of these donations were contributed anonymously while sometimes the donor just walked up to the counter and offered to pay. Although it may not be a lot for some people, it means a lot for those in poverty. A lot of younger people often focus on what we don’t have but we rarely think about what we do have that others may not be fortunate enough to have. Some also have this unnecessarily high sense of pride to not let others help us when we really need it just so we don’t feel like we’re weak or something. But sometimes you just need to step back, take a look at the bigger picture, and decide if you could extend a helping hand to someone or take the help from someone else. As you can see from these anonymous donations, there are still people who are willing to help others in this world.
- Vivian

It’s your job to do something right, your job to get your homework done and get the right answers, your job to know what the play is in football, your job to do what’s right. No one else has that responsibility. You can’t blame your friends, or family, or pets. There are consequences if you don’t to something right, or don’t even do it at all. Like in Harry Potter, the last one (this is a spoiler if you haven’t read or watched it yet) it’s Harry’s job to die in order to kill Voldemort. He did his job, and ended up succeeding in the end. So if you do your job and what your supposed to do, nothing bad should happen.
- Matt