Career Quest: Make a Difference Day

As weeks pass more students in the LLC begin to discover their true passion. A student in particular began their first year at UW-Milwaukee as a journalism student and switched their major to something completely different. We believe that the LLC course is just one of the components that led that student to make such a big change.
The students were recently apart of Make a Difference Day. The students gathered in the union and grouped around their fellow peers to prepare themselves for the day to come. It being early in the morning with no food or coffee in their system they fled for the free bagels, granola, fruit, and coffee given out to those volunteers that were willing to spend their Saturday morning to make a change. At the start of it all it didn’t go as planned. The group was not assigned a house to rake because there had been so many others coming out to help our community. But, we were given another project. The students were assigned a specific street around the campus to clean. Local residents showed admiration to the UWM students. Shocked faces and confused expressions, they were at awe that total strangers were giving them any recognition for their work. These students realized the fact that they were exerting effort and spending their time on developing our city.
We are in the works of having a volunteer event at the nearest Boys and Girls Club by the end of this semester. Since our past volunteer event the residents are eager to get started.