I’m am a Homeschooled Student, that lives in a small town (Less than 700 ppl) , not much I can do, everything is 1-3 away. I am checking into a library to see if I can do anything. I write on Wattpad on my spare time, I’m also checking into Computer Coding as an Extracurricular Activity. Can anyone Suggest or Help me find some Extracurricular activities ?
Get involved in your community, your church etc.
And opinion does vary on CC but I consider things you do in a room alone (ex. learning coding) to be a hobby rather than an EC. It can turn into an EC if you use the skills you acquire to help an organization etc. with their computer system, teach others the skill etc.
where I live there isn’t much (little to none) for community and Me and my family are Atheist.
Go to the church to debate with the church members on why do people think God exists or not for a long period of time could be consider an extracurricular activity. There was a famous atheist who had tried to approve there was no God by doing his own research on Biblical history and in the process he became a Christian and wrote a book about it. Anyway, if you can try like that, and whatever is your conclusion, you can write it as a college essay. It will be unique and interesting. If you have access to computer and internet, you can also join all kind of web interest group. My D jointed a web comic artists’ group before and drew few of comic trips to post for comments. It’s just an example, and you can research for any group that interest to you and maybe as a good after school activity for you. Assuming your small town is in a rural area. you might want to create your own extracurricular activities that can challenge yourself and also show your potential colleges your characteristic of being persistence, curious, ambitious, and fun loving. What I can think of are: trying to make the most beautiful garden; trying to grow the biggest ever pumpkin the town ever has; rock balancing or stone stacking (check out the web or Youtube); grow your own organic farm (raising chickens & eggs, vegetable…)… As long as you document what you do by taking pictures, post short diary or short clips on website or Youtube… Then when your time come for the college application, you will have lots of unique habits/ECs that are totally different from the more common ones of sports, school clubs, volunteer… One of the ECs also could be your Essay to show the admission officers how you from an novice to the expert in you EC, despite you don’t have the resources like other kids in big cities or suburbans.
I definitely DO NOT recommend going to church as an atheist. Idk how anyone could think that would be a good idea, and if you write about it in your college essay you will just look extremely edgy. Especially considering, in my experience, “debating” is often not possible when it comes to religion or politics.
Get involved online: take online courses on Ed. X or Coursera, start a blog/youtube channel, compete in online tournaments or something, create website or organization, be an entrepreneur.
start clubs yourself at the library and post flyers(ex. Philosophy club, sci-fi club, gaming club, coding club, etc.), get a bunch of jobs(tutoring, coding, etc. related to academics or your interests), enroll in summer camps/summer service projects(you can find them online, do something fun and go to canada or smth), etc.
Being home-schooled I think you actually have MORE opportunities to show you are unique and get involved. Colleges DONT CARE if you were in track, band, cheer, and a million bland EC’s all at once unless you have national awards, were team captain, or wrote a really good essay involving them. It means more if you did a bunch of unique activities, created your own clubs, organizations, or businesses, did exciting research projects, and are motivated to learn on your own.
Hope this helps!