Community Service Ideas

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I really don't mean to sound like a heartless teenage who only wants volunteer hours for the sake of college applications...</p>

<p>To be honest, I have really done anything yet, and I am already a junior. I know you are all tsk-tsking. So help me out here!</p>

<p>-I was supposed to do some volunteer stuff for the election but I had to work on all the training days so it never did work out, and I do feel bad about it.</p>

<p>-BOTH the librairies I belong to told me that they do not need any volunteer help!!</p>

<p>-You have to be 18 or older to volunteer at the zoo, which was something I was actually really interested in seeing as I am interested in nature & the environment. </p>

<p>-You have to be 18 and a high school graduate to volunteer at this Literacy Center in the area, which teaches adults to read. They have training workshops like twice a year, but the organzier said I really did have to be 18, in order to maintain the peer-aspect of tutoring an adult. I was really disappointed by this because I don't think it's so much of a problem, it's not like I would be condescending towards them or anything. And reading is such a big part of my life, I really wanted this to be able to happen.</p>

<p>So enough excuses!
*Something I was thinking of doing was organizing a book drive at my school. There are plenty of organizations we could send the books to afterwards.
*Of course, there is always tutoring. </p>

<p>Any other ideas? What are some community service activities you are/were involved in that are important to you or that you really enjoy doing?</p>

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<p>Have you tried a soup kitchen and/or homeless shelter? If you are interested in nature and the enviornment, what about volunteering your time at an animal shelter?</p>

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<p>Well I am a calculating about most things, but the one thing about my HS career that i really genuinely did and loved was i spent a ton of time tutoring kids in this really run down school near by. I initially was like, this is brilliant because I will not only prove to colleges mastery of my studies because I am teaching them to others, and mastery of spanish because its a largely hispanic, underpriviledged area, but it is also something that I dont think is too cliche. However, while there are 1000 things I have done just because I'm a calculating bastard, I spent like 300 hours doing it because it really became awesome. Also, back to the calculating side, you can LEAD a ORGANIZATION (key words right there) and get others from you school involved, which shows above average commitment, leadership, etc. And its a really social thing, your talking to people near your age. ANND I think some colleges are looking for people who show signs of wanting to be professors.</p>