If I could choose one thing that I would like NSCS help me achieve then I would choose that to be obtaining an internship. I believe that internships are a crucial factor to getting students the real world experience that many college students lack coming out of graduation. Most students will get to do an internship but it may not be in the field that they would like to begin a career in. Even then it isn’t pointless but I think they could have put their time into an internship where they felt like they had something to work for or had something to prove. If I had an internship in the field that I one day planned to someday land a career in I would work my hardest every day to prove to the employer that I have what it takes and that I am willing to make sacrifices for the betterment of the company. Internships can help break the loop of college students having no experience because they can’t get a job because they have no experience. NSCS could be a tremendous help to all the chapters around the nation by providing events such as private career fairs, mixers, and different social events that will get students that face to face contact with employers. Being that the members of NSCS are nationally recognized most companies wouldn’t hesitate to give us a chance to prove ourselves in an internship opportunity. This is just one of the many ways that NSCS could help out all of its members across America and I’m sure that there are plenty of others that would agree with my idea. Working side jobs in college is surely nothing to be ashamed about, but there is nothing like getting hands on experience in a career that you are currently studying for.
If I could design an NSCS chapter event I would most likely design a volunteering/socializing event that will be held between my chapter members. A good volunteering event that I could design would be to create small packages that we could fit into backpacks to take to the less fortunate and homeless of Houston, TX. The package would include a first aid kit, food, water, and other daily human hygienic needs. We would pass these packages out in the area of downtown Houston where most of the less fortunate is found in high numbers. This event relates to three pillars of NSCS in a number of ways. The first pillar is scholarship. To receive a scholarship you should first do something to demonstrate that you are the best possible candidate to be chosen. Kids who are eligible for scholarships take things above and beyond other than what regular students do. NSCS is a distinguished group of scholars around the country so we should continually do things to help out our immediate communities. Scholarships are earned and should not be handed out as they were candy. I think showing leadership in the community and taking the initiative to do something positive in the community would be smiled upon in the NSCS hierarchy. Service is one of the most important pillars of NSCS. If you don’t serve your community then you are really not having an impact on the community. Service is the best way to give back to your community because it is hands on and can be done in a numerous amount of ways. To have integrity is an integral part of being raised. To have integrity is to have honor, morals, and principles. Every human should have a set of morals and principles that he or she lives or bases their life upon. Giving back to the community through volunteer events just shows a person’s amount of integrity that they have.