My Journey to Eagle Scout
I began my scouting experience in Cub Scout pack 244 when I was in first grade. As a Cub Scout, I got a small taste of shat scouting is about, mostly the fun parts. My pack went camping one or two times a year and also had various events occur at our weekly meetings. In addition to this, my dad and I attended a short cub scout summer camp at Camp Lazarus in Powell, Ohio each year that our pack did not go to. Cub Scouts was a lot of fun on one hand, but on the other, the boys in my den all went to school together, but I did not. Consequently, I never became very good friends with the other boys. Because of this, by the transition to Boy Scouts after 5th grade, I pretty much decided that I did not want to go on in Scouting. I remember the turning point pretty well, we were on our way to the Maple Syrup Festival to visit the troop I would end up joining and I did not want to go. I threw a fit, made my dad angry and practically ruined the day! My mom told me that I needed to go to this one last event and then after that if I really did not enjoy it any more I could quit. Well like my parents knew, I had fun that day. Enough fun to continue on into Boy Scouts!
Once 5th grade ended, I joined Boy Scout Troop 332 where I met many people who would shape my life throughout my time in scouts. Namely the Scoutmaster Joel Chow and the committee members Rich Lusignolo and Gary Smith, as well as my peers who continued in Scouts as long as I did. When I began in 5th grade, there were around 15 boys in my patrol. By the time I graduated from high school, there were only 3 original members of my patrol who were still active in the troop. During my first year as part of 332 I participated as an active patrol member, in each of the following years I took on leadership roles that would enable to me to grow and learn. I lead my peers as a patrol leader for two years, an assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader and junior assistant scoutmaster. With each of these roles came greater responsibility. The first only involved leading a small group of peers, each role beyond that put me in charge of more of the troop in conjunction with other leaders until finally as a JASM (junior assistant scoutmaster) I was no longer directly in charge, I was in an advising role to the leaders younger than me who were elected. Each of these leadership roles taught me something, in fact, each taught me a great deal about working with others, leadership, collaboration and hundreds of other skills that I could not even begin to list.
My experiences as a scout, especially my experiences with troop 332, have shaped my entire life. I have learned more than I will ever be able to teach. On top of that I discovered the field I wanted to work in through scouting. All of the first aid training and the desire to help people that was instilled in me have driven me towards the health care field. I think that the scout slogan and motto, "Do a good turn daily" and "Be prepared" respectively, pretty much sum up why I want to be a physician. I think that as a physician I will be able to directly help patients thereby doing good for my community, and in the event that someone gets hurt or suffers some ailment, I will "be prepared" with knowledge and experience to help them as well. Scouting has shaped my life more than I can say, I am happy to have been apart of if for so long and I look forward to being active in it for many years to come.
Once 5th grade ended, I joined Boy Scout Troop 332 where I met many people who would shape my life throughout my time in scouts. Namely the Scoutmaster Joel Chow and the committee members Rich Lusignolo and Gary Smith, as well as my peers who continued in Scouts as long as I did. When I began in 5th grade, there were around 15 boys in my patrol. By the time I graduated from high school, there were only 3 original members of my patrol who were still active in the troop. During my first year as part of 332 I participated as an active patrol member, in each of the following years I took on leadership roles that would enable to me to grow and learn. I lead my peers as a patrol leader for two years, an assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader and junior assistant scoutmaster. With each of these roles came greater responsibility. The first only involved leading a small group of peers, each role beyond that put me in charge of more of the troop in conjunction with other leaders until finally as a JASM (junior assistant scoutmaster) I was no longer directly in charge, I was in an advising role to the leaders younger than me who were elected. Each of these leadership roles taught me something, in fact, each taught me a great deal about working with others, leadership, collaboration and hundreds of other skills that I could not even begin to list.
My experiences as a scout, especially my experiences with troop 332, have shaped my entire life. I have learned more than I will ever be able to teach. On top of that I discovered the field I wanted to work in through scouting. All of the first aid training and the desire to help people that was instilled in me have driven me towards the health care field. I think that the scout slogan and motto, "Do a good turn daily" and "Be prepared" respectively, pretty much sum up why I want to be a physician. I think that as a physician I will be able to directly help patients thereby doing good for my community, and in the event that someone gets hurt or suffers some ailment, I will "be prepared" with knowledge and experience to help them as well. Scouting has shaped my life more than I can say, I am happy to have been apart of if for so long and I look forward to being active in it for many years to come.