My relationship with community service is an interesting one. If you read my first blog post you might come away with the idea that I value large social change over small acts of service to the point where I might not even be able to see the benefit of something like community service. And at one point or another in my life, that may have even been the way I thought. However, over the course of my educational career, I have grown to see the extreme value of service learning both in and outside of the educational pretext. I have learned that volunteering and community service keeps me grounded and, however much I value social justice advocacy on a systemic level, I have to have those values grounded in something. Serving the community at the ground level can provide a motivation for anyone to continue that trajectory of community serving. In an educational environment, service learning and community service becomes almost necessary to foster a well-rounded individual. Service learn...