Brennan Community Hub

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What I love about the Brennan Program

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is I really got to meet
so many different people

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and do a wide
range of tasks, you know,

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I was doing things from
volunteering at immigration centres

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to helping the elderly use IT.

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My favourite part of it was probably
the connections that I made

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and the people that I met.

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Being surrounded by
people who are driven

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and who really care about
social justice issues,

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really inspired me as well
and it just reminded me that

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it's possible to create a better world.

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I thought the Brennan Program
would be an individual experience,

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that I would be doing all
the activities by myself.

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But I found that going
to the social justice events

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and encouraging others to be involved,

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it created a good community,

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and it helped me to develop
a holistic version of myself.

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What I really love about
the Brennan Program

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is it allowed me to spend
time with ambitious and driven

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and socially aware law students,

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who I could then model
my university experience on.

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My main goal in joining
the Brennan Program

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was to get more involved
in social justice.

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So, honestly,
when I started the Program,

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I did it for the main purpose of
actually getting the Brennan Award.

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But I found that once I actually
got started doing the task,

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I actually found myself
not thinking so much about

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getting the award and receiving it,

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but rather immersing myself in
whatever experiences I was in.

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I found that actually doing those
tasks was much more fulfilling

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than I even thought possible,

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so at the end of the day
I found that the award,

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whilst it was very nice to get,
I found the experiences,

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the tasks that I did to get there
much more fulfilling at the end.

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A welcome surprise to me

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was that I got back in touch with
that engaged side of my student life.

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My first two years I was
slightly more disengaged,

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and through the Brennan Program,
I was able to really get active,

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and properly involved
within my life at university.