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The PCS experience has been incredible.
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Being a Presidents community Scholar
means many things to me.
It’s giving back to the Oklahoma City area and the Norman area.
You, your also a role model on this campus.
Instant networking as soon as you get to
the University of Oklahoma.
It really helped me kind of see all the different opportunities
there are to get involved on campus and just how to help
develop my leadership skills.
It really is a great program and it changed my life.
The PCS student is making a difference in their community.
We’re leaders on campus and we’re scholars.
We hold academics to a high standard.
You were chosen out of a huge pile of freshmen.
Being a freshman on campus is stressful enough but being a
part of PCS was probably one of my best experiences here at OU.
So being a part of those 100 students is really an honor.
These are not just any students; they are 100 of the most
incredible incoming freshmen of their class.
How amazing is that?
Your making your friends for life.
PCS really gave me kind of an anchor and gave me a group to
turn to and taught me a lot of things that I truly believe, I
would not of learned otherwise.
There’s about 7,000 other people who want to be in your position.
As a PCS student, there are so many benefits that you
gain your freshmen year.
You will get the chance to network with amazing speakers.
They are scholars, they are very intelligent people.
From President Boren, the former Vice President of Disney World
came to speak with us.
To Miss OU, the Lieutenant Governor came to talk with us.
Just a lot of inspirational people come to PCS to impart
their knowledge on you.
Well we have the opportunity to exchange information with them,
meet them afterwards, talk to them, get pictures with them,
they want to do everything they can to help PCS students.
All these people have brought applications to me and helped
with interview skills and just helped me with
school in general.
You will know all the new community
service initiatives that are going on.
You will have those opportunities brought to you.
It’s just good to know those people to open doors for you.
I’ve learned a lot about myself by seeing all the amazing
mentors and leaders that come into the PCS meeting to
talk to us.
And I truly believe that I would not be able to be in the
position that I am today without PCS and just listening to the
different speakers that came, kind of showed us the different
outlets on campus and all the different opportunities
that we have here.
So it really showed me that I need to take advantage of the
time here at OU and really develop my leadership skills.
One of our speakers at the beginning of the year was Dr.
George Henderson and he’s a really inspirational person on
our OU campus and he came and talked to our PCS class about
serving the community in his life and he left us with a quote
which was “What little we have we will share” and to me that
just really encompassed what PCS is about because it looks for
students who love to serve the community and who love to share
what little they have and so that’s what PCS strives for.
But the most important thing is that your doing
something bigger than yourself.
One thing that PCS really helps all of us to do is to really
find our own path in community service.
I became involved in Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Norman,
which PCS really helped me and guided me to this organization.
One of my favorite things about PCS is we have
such great leadership potential.
I, myself am a part of the top ten seniors called PE-ET, and
theirs two of us out of the ten who are in PCS.
We also have a Truman scholar.
There’s only two out of the state of Oklahoma and also a
Trump scholar and there are only eight chosen nationally.
And we also have from the top ten freshmen,
sophomores and juniors.
PCS helps our leadership potential because we’re not only
winning these awards locally but also nationally as well.
I think my favorite part about being in PCS is my interaction
with the other students.
We have PCS meeting every Thursday and right before our
meeting starts we go, and all, to collectively have a dinner in
Couch restaurant.
We all wear our t-shirts like this.
So when you see other people with these shirts, oh my gosh,
you automatically already have over 100 new friends.
The connection between being a Sooner and being a part of PCS
is really just this immense pride and school spirit.
One way to describe it is the way we end every PCS meeting, is
that everyone getting up and singing the OU chant together,
it just gives you goose bumps, it’s really cool.
My advice to you is, never be afraid to apply, always pick up
that application and Have confidence.
I, my freshmen year, applied for almost everything
that came my way.
Every application that you fill out, every interview that you
have is always going to give you better experience for the next.
You just jump in whole heartily.
Your only in college for four years and so I really encourage
you to make sure you find what your passionate
about and go with it.
Take advantage of all the opportunities that
PCS has provided to you.
Doing community service and helping out your community is
really something that you should do.
PCS really helped me jump in, get involved.
What it means to be a Presidents Community Scholar is to be a
servant of the community.
This is a wonderful organization because not only is it going to
help you in achieving what you want to achieve here from
college, you are also bettering yourself and helping everyone
else out as well.
We are PCS.
We are PCS.
We are PCS.
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