One of the annual events at Stockton University is the Day of Service which was on the 9th of September this year. The Day of Service began in the Main Campus Center where breakfast was served and students signed their names with a black sharpie on name tags. The purpose of the Day of Service was to inspire students to give back to the community. The fall Day of Service is one of the first events hosted by the university to kick-start the events the university has to offer throughout the year. After breakfast, everyone went into the Campus Event Room where the plans for the day were explained. The day was split up into four different parts which composed of going to a political event, making crafts for Ronald McDonald house, making crafts for the wellness center for suicide prevention while lunch was served, and the last part of the day was filled packing bags of rice packages.

Based on the color of the name tags, everyone was split up into four groups and sent off to their first destination which was in the lower F-wing hallway. The first part of the political event consisted of polling, where students were given four choices: strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, and strongly disagree. Based on their choices, students had to line themselves into groups on how they felt about the statement that was being said. After completing this poll, students spent their time doing various of things such as signing up to vote, writing on a large piece of paper about what environmental changes or concerns they have, and getting a pin.

Soon enough, it was time to change activities and go to the second activity. Going back to the Campus Event Room, everyone was given a choice of doing whatever craft they wanted to complete for the Ronald McDonald house. At this time, four volunteers were chosen from the group to make peanut butter jelly sandwiches for local people in need of food. During the craft event, most of the girls were found at one of the tables making intricate bracelets for the children at the hospital to wear. Others were putting together coloring books for children to color in. Some people were helping to make pillows that were going to go to people in need of them. As the music played, everyone worked diligently until the end of that activity.

Upon arriving at the third activity, which was located by Dunkin Donuts, lunch was served. While eating, everyone started to work on the crafts for the wellness center for suicide prevention. There were hundreds of rocks that were expected to be painted about suicide prevention. Also, people received small circular pieces of paper to draw and write inspirational messages on for suicide prevention. These small pieces of paper were then transformed into pins. In the coming weeks, the rocks were seen displayed throughout campus, and the pins were distributed to the students, who hanged the pins on their backpacks.

The last activity for the day was packing rice packages for malnutrition countries. The process started with putting a certain amount of rice, beans, and vitamins in a bag. These bags were then passed to the next station where people put enough rice to get the bag to a certain weight. After these bags were accurately weighed, the bags were sealed and placed in boxes to be shipped. One group alone made ten thousand bags for people in need in third world countries so together as a college a difference was made in the world. The day ended back in the Campus Center Event room, where students reflected over what was achieved throughout the day through a survey.