Student Fellows Program July 2005
Mark G.
2005
A high school student shares Student Fellows Program highlights and experiences.
First, I wanted to get involved in my school's SEO because it seemed like a club that best truly reflected my personal beliefs about the way people should come to view the world and should come to view their interactions with other people. You have to have some sort of moral guiding light to prevent you from continually making mistakes or treating others in ways that violate that lovely Golden Rule of "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." As I used to try to implement this philosophy in my actions before the SEO, I guess I felt that now I would not have to do that alone anymore if I had the backing of a club behind me, a group of students that could support in my convictions to go the extra mile and never to take the easy, unethical way out. Plus, I was nominated for the SEO; it was not as though I applied to get into the organization nor as though I consciously wanted to be a part of it, but rather than someone else wanted me to be included in the organization, a little reversed way to think of joining clubs. Due to this special way of being selected and valued, I felt that the club might just be worth my time.
Second, at the SFP the main experience I recall is that of bonding immensely with my fellow SEOfficers at my school. I mean, sure there were quite enlightening bits about how ethics is exercised in the professional world or how to institute an effective SEO in one's school and especially this last time, at the second annual SFP, because we really focused on concrete ways to make a difference in our school community with real projects our tangible changes in the structure of our SEO, but I would have to say that the overall feeling that I took from my attendance at the last two SFPs was one of solidarity and increased familiarity with those SEOfficers from my own school.
