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I think the Park program at NC State

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really helped shape me and my leadership skills

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in very wonderful ways.

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Through that I was the publicity manager for Service Raleigh in its tenth year,

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so I was able to get the word out to students

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about this wonderful day of service and we ended up having

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a thousand more people try to sign up for it than we had spots for.

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So that was really exciting and

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through that I was able to learn how to be in charge of

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a subcommittee within a larger committee

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and those different levels of bureaucracy.

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We had trips to Washington, DC

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where I was able to talk to a Supreme Court justice

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and the publisher of USA Today

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and lots of different experiences like that that

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I don't think I would have had if I hadn't had that experience.

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I was also put into a community of people that remains

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a good support system for me

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and just quite pragmatically

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because of the financial gift that they bestowed upon me

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I was able to partake in so many other extracurricular activities,

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particularly study abroad, that I wouldn't have been able to if I hadn't had that.

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In fact in one of the trips to the Galapagos they

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even additionally helped me with some travel costs for that.

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So the Park program was truly a blessing on my college career.