EWOT: Wilson Day

On Wilson Day, the University of Rochester has the opportunity to allow the students to give back to the community of Rochester by volunteering and helping others try to fix parts of a community. Yet I feel there's something more to it. I feel "volunteering" is a stretch towards Wilson Day. If on Wilson Day, the University of Rochester tries to help the city by volunteering part of their time, who is there to say that part of their time is put to waste. What if Wilson Day was purposely made for everyone to shred weeds out each year. I'm not saying that these companies are doing them on purpose but where are the results? Last year, the opportunity cost of going to Wilson Day for me was to socialize with the hall mates. But what ever happened to the patch of grass that we weeded out? How is it that every year there is the same type of weeds for everyone to pick up? Why can't the they put money aside and allow others to renovate the area so that they can completely fix it? Or is this just ultimately to have everyone do something every year for Wilson Day? Once again I'm not trying to demolish the pride those have over Wilson Day but it always seems like every year students go to the same place to do the same thing we had to do last year.