<p>Future business leaders of america I joined in Freshmen year because my business teacher thought I’d be good at it. I loved it and was 10th grade vp and will be the recording sec. next year. It might look good to colleges, but why join a club you hate? Why even risk the quality of a club just to join and be a council member when you dislike it?</p>
<p>Kick off mentoring was a half half. I genuinely wanted to help the freshmen (my freshman year was less fun than it could have been). And I knew it would look awesome to colleges.
But again, I became treasurer and a team leader because I cared. Not just for colleges.
I wanted to make the club better.</p>
<p>But in my school, the clubs are usually large enough that the kids who aren’t interested gradually disappear from the club and they are usually never voted into a council member position.</p>
<p>Freshman = new school. Sophomore = new school</p>
<p>I joined class council when I was a sophomore, mainly because of college. I try to act apathetic, but I know that deep down, I have school pride. lol</p>
<p>Then I went on CC and learned that people have dedicated ECs starting from pre-school, and it was November and I was sh#t out of luck.</p>
<p>Soooo besides that, I will have 100 hours @ the library. I joined H4H yesterday, and I’m genuinely excited, even though there are like 65 members, and it seems so crowded. I’m going to join a tutoring club, too. I like helping kids :3</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll get a job.</p>
<p>And that means… NO LEADERSHIP! I have no idea what to do. Start a new club? Nngggh</p>
<p>Aaahhhh gosh in America you have so many clubs and things!! I swear we have like none in comparison, especially in sixth form (junior+senior years). :/</p>
<p>I’m in an interesting situation; many (if not most) of my activities started in my junior year. This was because up until the spring of my junior year, baseball took up the bulk of my spare time. (In the spring my coach and I made the mutual decision that I should not be on the team - he was fired after that season. lol)</p>
<p>During junior year, though, I began two activities in conjunction with baseball, which took up a lot more of my time. Over the summer (I’m a senior now), I started a lot more volunteer work and another activity or two to fill the gap baseball left behind.</p>
<p>Now all this does look really good for college, but the main reason I’m starting these new endeavors is just pure interest. How do I convey this to colleges so they don’t just assume the continuous growth of activities are for college only?</p>
<p>Generally, if I join something for college (the school literally magazine, Amnesty International) I won’t enjoy it. But if I join it because of genuine interest (Quiz Bowl, newspaper, anouncements) I like it much, much more.</p>
<p>And as for my most time-consuming, but also most enjoyable EC…I only joined Speech and Debate because my crush asked me to show up. For that matter, I only <em>continued</em> because I won my first tournament in Extemp (and beat him, for that matter ;]).</p>
<p>And get this: he had to remind me of the format of an Extemp speech right before I went in for my very first speech. Lolz. Everyone teased him afterwards about how his “girlfriend” beat him. A few of the seniors still do. ;p</p>
<p>I used to join clubs just for college. And then after sophomore year, I was just way too worn out and I seriously just did not give a shart about any of that. I quit Red Cross and Shakespeare Club and all that stuff. And I just pursued the one club I actually did like, which was Environmental Club and became president.</p>
<p>I join for both. But as the leader of a club, I would like to point out that the officers of your animal welfare club could be stressing the “look good for college” factor in order to retain their members and have member involvement in activities because the vast majority of club members join in order to put it on their college apps. Just wanted to put out another perspective.</p>
<p>I just started my freshman year, and there are an insane amount of options for clubs. I want to do a traveling Drama/Debate/Speech group, which takes up every other weekend, but I also want to do Spanish club since I love languages, and Model UN because it seems fun and challenging, and a multi-cultural group since I’m interested in different cultures and customs. I keep being told I should do FBLA or DECA for college apps, but I doubt I’ll ever go into a business career and they seem like a lot of work for what a lot of people say colleges aren’t overly impressed by anyway. Plus I play piano and dance.</p>
<p>Right now I’m trying to sort of what I want to do, I what I think I should do. People never want to admit they’re doing something just for college, but isn’t that why we’re all on this website anyway? ;P</p>
<p>personally i only join clubs that i have an interest of
i was never worried about padding my college application (which is why i’m sort of in a bind now, but whatever, i don’t mind)</p>
<p>I specifically avoid clubs with the most resume padders (ie, student created clubs, language clubs, Habitat for Humanity at my school). I’m heavily involved in debate, which isn’t necessarily free of people looking to boost their college app, but it involves so much work that people looking for an “easy” club back out pretty quickly. </p>
<p>Though, truth be told, I’d probably spend more of my time reading on my porch than participating in ECs if college wasn’t at stake.</p>
<p>Both. I joined Congressional Debate in freshman year out of interest, but the constant politicking, lack of actual discussion on the topics, and the fact that I don’t have any friends there has made me grow to really hate it. I would love to quite, but as it is my senior year, I fear it will look bad, and I’m considering asking one of the coaches (who was my English teacher last year) for a recommendation.</p>
<p>I joined math team and science olympiad at my school during freshman year because I had (and still have) a legitimate interest in them. Plus, all my friends are in those clubs, too, so that makes them fun.</p>
<p>I joined a club called SADD (students against destructive decisions) last year (sophomore year) to look good for college, but I didn’t rejoin this year because EVERYONE in it was only doing it for college! We never did any club-related activities. </p>
<p>I’m in band at my school, and I absolutely love it. I joined Tri-M (music club between band and chorus) my sophomore year, and am treasurer of it this year (junior year). I actually really like being an officer; it’s a lot of fun, and it’s nice to be able to think of ways to improve the club. </p>
<p>All in all, I think I join clubs for interest :)</p>
<p>Since Im still in junior high(last year though) I decided to try and create a few clubs to help the school’s younger students develop their interest for high school later on. My first project is a drawing club but its targeted for those with 7th period like me. My potential new projects include a science club, a technoloy, a biomedical/health fields club , a math appreciation club(for competitions and tutoring(to be or to)) ,music appreciation/theory club and maybe even a junior national honor society(but the fee is too expensive. What do you guys think of this and any tips.
I do know I have challenges like
-High student apathy
-Lack of teachers willing to be involved or aree too involved
-My busy schedule(7th period Band,Journalism independent reporter(in the club not class),potential student advisor to knowledge bowl/math team???,ASB store manager,possible involvement in both AIA and AASU and anime club) For now Im just exploring interests but I love band(first I just took it to fulfill my hs exit requirements)
but I might take marching at high school so I can learn my instrument while skipping P.E(I also love P.E though),
-I watch the news a lot so I figured journalism was a fit since I became attracted to news,
-ASB I was suppose to be VP but I didn’t get my act together in time for the elections so I settled for this position I do have a business part of me(really I joined ASB cause I thought it would be like student government not really but I love it)
-AIA and AASU seemed fun and also seemed like a place to fit in(I’m also muticultural)
-Anime I love watching it
-KB and math team a place where I can truly be myself(a nerd)
Sorry if this is a huge block of text but if you have any tips for me it would be welcome :D</p>
<p>“I joined a club called SADD (students against destructive decisions) last year (sophomore year) to look good for college, but I didn’t rejoin this year because EVERYONE in it was only doing it for college! We never did any club-related activities.”</p>
<p>haha it’s well known at my school that most members of SADD actually drink themselves.</p>