SCSU Day of Service

For this week’s adventure, I decided to participate in SCSU’s day of service last Saturday. I figured since I had the day off and all of the leg work was already done, it would be easy just to sign up and show up. I followed a few links online and signed up (it was pretty easy) and got a response of approval in a decent amount of time. That was probably the only easy part of the entire experience.

Saturday morning, I woke up bright and early to show up in the Student Center by 8. Finding where I had to sign in was easy enough, but when I registered online they neglected to tell me that I had to complete an assumption form, but luckily for me they had a table set up with forms. So when I got to the table I found that there were no more forms. I told one of the volunteers running the event that there were no more forms. They told me to go all the way upstairs and there would be another table with them. So after hiking up three flights of stairs, I was greeted with breakfast and t-shirts but no forms. I looked around, grabbed a t-shirt, and went back downstairs to find that there were now more forms at the original table.

After that nice goose chase I went upstairs to wait in the ballroom. We were supposed to start at 9am with the cleanup but I didn’t arrive to my sight until after 10:30. This was because there was utter chaos and disorganization in the ballroom. My group leader was nowhere to be found until we got on the bus. When we got there I was confused because there was nothing to clean up. There were a few leaves and wrappers, but not enough to keep us busy for 3 hours. After digging a bit deeper into the woods we found a few beer cans and a few dirty diapers (thankfully we had gloves). And after about an hour and a half my group called it quits and we ate lunch. (This was provided by the school, good thing they fed us).

We told our leader that we were supposed to be back by one but it was really two. She had no clue as to what we were supposed to be doing and she didn’t really care, which was good because no one in my group really care either. Once I got off the bus, I helped carry some supplies back to the closet and then I bolted for my car before they made us do any more work around campus.

Overall, the day of service at SCSU was a complete joke, a waste of my Saturday. It was a chaotic mess and no one knew what they were doing. I wouldn’t participate in this again unless I had to for a class. The only good part of this day was the free food, free t-shirt, and the fact that I got to leave early and salvage what was left of my wasted Saturday.