Community Service Scholars and CACTUS projects

So I don't know if y'all know this, but I am a community service scholar. What exactly does that mean? (In case you don't want to click on the link). Well, I'm here at Tulane with a scholarship for doing community service work in high school (I was really involved with this organization which put on Girl's Economic Power Day that taught high school girls how to deal with all things relating to money).

What being a scholar entails is having to do forty hours of community service a year, going to various development meetings, and getting a mentor who would help me develop my own communtiy service project here at Tulane.

Last year, my mentor was a Senior named Brittany who I still am in contact with is one of my best resources even though she graduated. She was the project coordinator of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program at Tulane under our big community service organization the Community Action Council of Tulane University Students (CACTUS) and so I got involved with both Big Brothers/Big Sisters and CACTUS.

Now, my mentor is my friend Seth (pictured below) who has deemed himself my "life coach" and tells me that I need chill out because he thinks I do too much.



He is also a project coordinator of a project called Paint Rally which is a great project where we go out and paint schools almost every Saturday (contact him at srushton@tulane.edu or me if you are in town and want to volunteer a Saturday with us at Paint Rally!). Below is a cute picture of my roommate, Arielle, when she came to help paint a school (obviously not a clean task)

Basically, I love doing community service work and am glad I get to go somewhere where community service is really valued and needed. I have met some of my best friends doing community service and had a great time while also getting to make a difference. What else could you ask for?