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MISSION: Music Mission
Working at a university allows me to encounter lots of different types of people from all kinds of backgrounds. I meet students regularly who have stories and life experiences that move me deeply. And at the beginning of each new academic year, I am always excited to think about who I might meet and what stories I might hear. I have a tender heart for first-year students, especially, as I participated as a mentor to freshmen students to help them get adjusted to the new environment and demands (and experiences) they’d be experiencing as new college students.
I love Affiliated Agent AF’s mission, which she completed last year on the campus of Georgia Tech Institute of Technology. Sometimes, the best way to get through your own new (and sometimes scary) experiences is to help someone else get through theirs.
DATE:
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
OPERATIVE:
Affiliated Agent AF
LOCATION:
library
Georgia Institute of Technology
TIME:
not specified
I am a first year student at Georgia Tech. This first semester has been really daunting as I feel like I have been pulled in so many directions as well as adjusting to brand new surroundings eleven hours from home (I am also from Pittsburgh). I have been in a slump lately felling very overwhelmed. Then I thought about all of the other students at Tech who are feeling the same way and probably worse. I decided to model you and have my own act of random kindness for another stressed college student. Something that can always invigorate me is new music so I went to the student bookstore and bought an iTunes card. I left this in the library next to a computer signed “George P. Burdell” (a fictitious hero at Tech). Knowing that I made someone’s day brightened mine and has inspired me to focus on my studies into the end of the semester.
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I loved this one. I am a college freshman and it feels like not only are you never alone, you always are. Things have been rough the past few months, but I’ve found a lot of comfort particularly in Tori Amos’ early music, and I know it’s helped me to pull through.
I saw this random act of kindness on facebook and automatically connected. Thank you for what you do!
Cale
I love this one! I wish there was a way I could do this….maybe I can sneak into a local computer lab or something. My first week at college was so lonely!! One note on my door inviting me for cake from a kid I met randomly that day changed my entire college career (and I still go on vacation with that kid, his wife and all of the SAME people who came to his dorm room for birthday cake that day!!!) His random act of kindness brought 7 amazing friends together.
Until that day, though, I was so lonely. I might do this and tell a freshman about my story – maybe that will encourage them to invite a stranger over for cake….or just some bad dorm cafeteria dessert:)