My name is Amy and I’m a sophomore in the School of Business concentrating in International Business. I’m originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At GW I am involved with the District Youth Empowerment Program as well as various volunteer opportunities offered throughout campus. The District Youth Empowerment Program (DYEP) tutors at an elementary school in the area as well as The School without Walls, a high school located on campus. We also host events on campus and bring some of the elementary school kids we tutor to campus. I also live with a group of sophomores who are all in the Business School.
This weekend, GW hosted The Clinton Global Initiative University. The Clinton Global Initiative is an organization the President Clinton started after he left office. It began with world leaders coming together and promising to make the world a better place by the same time next year. If they didn’t, they weren’t invited back to the following year’s conference. This program had such an amazing result President Clinton started a version of his initiative at a college level. Each year it is hosted at a different university. Throughout Friday and Saturday students from all 50 states and many countries worldwide were on campus talking about their plans to make the world a better place and talking to people in similar field to make their ideas even better. There were four large discussions that all guests of the program were invited to attend. I worked at all of these events. On Friday night all 250 volunteers were invited to take a group picture with President Clinton. I was lucky enough to sit one person away from him! I promise to post a picture once I have a copy of it!
The best thing to me about GW is the wide array of events they host and all of the opportunities available as students. There is always something going on and by getting involved there is so much to learn… and it’s a lot of fun too!
Until next time.
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