<p>People are always saying to volunteer and do community service for something because you LIKE it, and not because you want your college applications to look good. But honestly, if colleges didn't even care about volunteering at all, would you be doing what you do? </p>
<p>It's like that episode of Friends where Joey says that there's no TRULY good deed because people feel good for doing good deeds (or something like that). I just wonder that if admissions officers only cared about academics, how many people would still be volunteering and doing community service to the extent that they do?</p>
<p>Most of the community service I have done I found very interesting; it was very enjoyable, and I strengthened my college application by doing so. So yes I would even if it had no effect on my application.</p>
<p>Well for me doing community service is MANDATORY. We have to do it for credit but I continue to do more hours because I like helping others and helping the community.</p>
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<p>Of course. </p>
<p>I tutored kids after school 3 times a week. We went apple picking last week. Last weekend, I helped decorating a little garden for a community and just this morning I did river cleaning by collecting and taking away the trash. I love every moment of it because I feel like I'm not wasting my time at all. And I don't even know if I would write that on my college applications, unless they ask for specific details on what I like to do on the weekends.</p>
<p>Tutoring has been in my family (well, through my older sisters) for years. I just kinda fell into it and took after my sisters. Now I do it because I see some actual worth in doing it and I like helping younger kids understand material. I never volunteered in a hospital or nursing home or soup kitchen. I don't know how much I would enjoy doing that, especially since I see no point in doing it. So yeah, I tutor because I like to, but I don't do other community service despite colleges supposedly liking it.</p>
<p>BTW props for relating a CC thread to Friends.</p>
<p>I don't mind it, but I don't enjoy it...and the only reason I don't mind it is because my "community service" involves sitting at an information desk at the hospital with my boyfriend, who knows NOTHING about the layout of the hospital, so I make him do everything, and all I do is tell people where to go and make deliveries.</p>
<p>"BTW props for relating a CC thread to Friends."</p>
<p>Haha, well, you know I try.</p>
<p>It seems to me (for the most part) that community service is something that you just kind of get into after you've forced yourself into doing it. Well "forced" isn't exactly the right word, but college was something like the catalyst to start people volunteering. I guess you have to find someplace where you can actually DO something instead of sitting around. But I'm glad to hear that there are people out there who truly enjoy it.</p>
<p>Yes. Personally, I think volunteering is more rewarding than working for a salary. Instead of monetary compensation, you get that warm fuzzy feeling. <em>tear, tear, Hallmark moment</em></p>
<p>Yes. I'd actually rather volunteer doing something with animals, but all nearby places here, you have to be 18, and I'm 17. :(
I like volunteering though, because the clubs I volunteer in, it doesn't even seem like volunteering, its just fun, especially since my friends are in the clubs too. :P
The college I want to go to has farms near it, and I plan on volunteering with the animals there, instead of continuing with the human helping clubs I'm in now.</p>
<p>Hahahaha S0ad I like that..."human helping" clubs. I currently volunteer at an animal shelter but I don't really get do anything. The most I usually do is the smelly, poop-ridden laundry.</p>
<p>well volunteer for something that u would like to do and not something that u think u will do grudgingly. if u dont like picking up trash then find something else. for me volunteering feels really good inside me and its very rewarding</p>
<p>Sometimes I like volunteering like when it's actually for a good cause. But somtimes it can get boring like when it's really slow. Like volunteering at the library. That can be boring.</p>
<p>Ahh library volunteerwork is soo boring. All we did was shelve books. But I did it with a friend so it was alright. Though I never went back after the first week.</p>
<p>Yeah, I actually like tutoring people. Unfortunately, I'm such a crummy tutor that after a week they all quit and went to someone else (who actually charged money).</p>
<p>This is why I only have 11 hours. And my failure to write things down.</p>
<p>Alright. On LBI today, its Chowderfest! The annual event where the New Yorkers come down and taste the chowder from the local restaurants. This in terms of locals = community service time. It also is the last day before the traffic lights are turned off and the speed limit is raised. Essentially the Island shuts off after today. So I walked down and said, hey can I do some vollunteer work. They said NO! What the hell! I'm going out of my way on a Sunday during football season and you turn down my services. Its not like I'm a grossly overwieght person who would not be able to do a lot of things other than just standing around. Its not like I did do service here last year. Its not like I haven't worked for the majority of businesses that are serving chowder. Its not like I'm asking to be paid for my efforts. But NO! just a denied. A rejection. A block. LBI can go and die. I can't wait to get away from this anti-town, where corruption is so prevalent that the FBI went into Borough Hall this year and walked out with filing cabniets. About 10 more months and I'll be long gone from this tourist resort in the Jersey Shore. </p>
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<p>Shore and sure are not homophones. </p>
<p>No I dont do community serivice because I like it. And Community serivce does not like me.</p>