<p>How many hours and what kind of community service did you guys have???</p>
<p>400+ hours, mostly tutoring children and high school students</p>
<p>I only mentioned CS once on my application, listing that I tutor 1 hr/week for NHS - didn't even put an hr total.</p>
<p>It's good not to put down how many hours. I also think that putting down CS may make it seem as if you did it just to put it on your college app, but if you did enjoy it and did it enough, put it down.</p>
<p>I didn't really write any down explicitly, I don't think. I'm a musician, and I play at a reduced rate or for free for a few select causes and organizations. I didn't write it down, though. I just listed my playing under the employment section. I'm politically active, and I wrote that down under the Activities section. I didn't have a total # of hours, and I left the hours/week blank, since they varied so much. (I obviously spent a huge number of hours in the months before the presidential election but put in very few in the months afterwards.) I listed a related "honor" in the non-academic awards section, though. I listed NHS under activities as 2 hours / week, but I didn't list the specific activities or drives or anything. I wrote down that I do a lot of work for my high school (helping out with major fundraisers, tour guide for prospective students, etc.).</p>
<p>I've always wanted to be a musician on the streets or the subway of Manhattan. I mean, I'm curious. Most of the time we ignore them. Put a few coins in their tin and walk away. Some people (myself included) will walk for the next block or so thinking about how good a given artist on the street was, but it's never as if you've discovered and unknown phenom and were completely blown away. Is there an inherent bias? Take an absolutely phenomenal musician, with boundless talent and beautiful compositions (for me, I would say Ottmar Liebert, of course ;)) and put him/her by the McDonalds in Penn Station on the LIRR concourse, and have him/her start playing some of their most gorgeous music, songs that are famous today. Do it where no one has heard the music before. Would the people's reaction to the music be any different than it is to most other street musicians?</p>
<p>Or, more importantly, did I really just go into this whole rant in the middle of a community service thread, just from reading the first sentence of corranged's post?</p>
<p>Ah...to be a bohemian musician playing one's instrument on the streets of New York City, in exchange for some notes and coins, some bread and cheese...that is the life, my friend.</p>
<p>Mmmm. Yes, it is. Well, for a while at least.</p>
<p>500 hours at church, my moms a minister</p>
<p>Until it's winter and freezing or summer and sweltering. Or until you run out of money or food. </p>
<p>But, yeah, I play weddings and parties and receptions in fancy restaurants, country clubs, and mansions. But, trust me, it's not nearly as glamorous as it sounds. ;)</p>
<p>I didnt put down 400+ hours, I put like 5 per week, 30 weeks per year, 9-12 grade</p>