University of California

PROMPT: What have you done to make your school or your community a better place? Last year, nearly 600 earthquakes hit my hometown of Reno in a ‘swarm’. Although the magnitudes of these quakes ranged from 2.5 to 3.7, the constant fear and anxiety of impending doom rose in the community. A disaster is unprecedented and unpredictable and, in our community, we always acknowledged their occurrence elsewhere but never fully admitted that a large- scale catastrophe may happen at our doorsteps. Recognizing this unspoken apathy, I decided to take a step beyond my school club and get involved in the…