<p>Next year I’ll be in Student Council, SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), Leo Club (as secretary! I’m excited but also terrified of messing something up oops), Newspaper, and Teen Court if they find a new sponsor.</p>
<p>I’d also love to take up writing again. I used to write a bunch but then I stopped and haven’t written anything for fun in about a year. Maybe I’ll do NaNoWriMo this year depending on my workload.</p>
<p>@Apollo :(</p>
<p>@Swinter ;)</p>
<p>Also, I just realized that you’ve been posting from the start, which was over a year ago!
Congrats!</p>
<p>@kimm1234: NaNoWriMo does look pretty cool…also what is Leo Club?</p>
<p>I want to try something outside of school like job shadowing or take up some language lessons just as long as it’s related to what im interested in but I don’t know what yet…</p>
<p>And I’m contemplating whether I should do after school volunteering at the hospital nearby…</p>
<p>^My school pays for Rossetta Stone, so that’s what I do. Perhaps your school might?
Also, just contact a bunch of small firms to get an internship; my friend did that and worked with the people at Kickstarter. Also, for volunteering, a hospital can lead to some serious hours accumulating.</p>
<p>My school probably doesn’t but I don’t think Rossetta Stone is that great. I want to be in an actual class where I can interact with the teacher and other students. It might be too costly though…
I want to try and contact some university professors but I’m kinda nervous about that…</p>
<p>I don’t know what my workload will be like for the school year so I’m not really sure about the hospital thing.</p>
<p>Apollo - Have you heard of the Lions club? Leo club is basically the teen version of it - it stands for leadership, experience, and opportunity. It’s basically just a volunteer club. :)</p>
<p>My school brought in Rosetta Stone in 8th grade to teach us Spanish and it wasn’t really helpful. It’s only good for vocabulary; it doesn’t teach you about sentence structure or the actual language. I found my actual spanish class in high school 100x more rewarding/enjoyable. I suppose it would be good if you just want to learn the basics, though.</p>
<p>Edit: Although, now that I’m thinking about it, we only had about 40 minutes a week for Spanish class, and it was only for one school year. So maybe it gets better after a while, I don’t know. :/</p>
<p>@Apollo Oh shoot, has it really been a year? Time flies. Next thing you know you’ll be trolling me about SAT scores or something haha.</p>
<p>Who here is looking to study languages (Not as a class, but a hobby) outside of school? I’m looking into Japanese or German.</p>
<p>^I was just talking about taking German outside of school!
How are you going to do it? I plan on doing some Rossetta Stone and lessons at a local German school as well as doing my senior year abroad in Germany on CBYX</p>
<p>Yeah, I was actually thinking along the same lines, oddly. My new school offers an exchange program in my junior year where I can travel to Germany for a few weeks and takes classes there. I probably would get a tutor or find a class to take for fun.</p>
<p>^I highly recommend the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program if you are interested. I posted a link earlier, but you basically spend a year in Germany, taking 10+ hours of language training daily while also sightseeing Europe and being an American ‘ambassador’. The US Congress also pays for it!</p>
<p>As much as I would love to, my school is a boarding school and rigorous, so I don’t think I would be able to leave my studies there for a full year. Thanks though, it sounds awesome. :-P</p>
<p>Oh well, I am willing to leave my engineering high school, but for the right reasons.
There is another program called NSLI-Y, the National Security Linguistics Initiative for Youth, which is like the same things, but it is one semester or over the summer [there is also a full year option]</p>
<p>I’m planning on applying to NSLIY and UWC this year.</p>
<p>ECs: Beta Club, Student Council, and Varsity Track and Field. Not much but enough. Colleges don’t care about a ton of extracurriculars. They’d rather see just a few extracurriculars that you excel in and are passionate about. -Words from the College Board people. My extracurricular that I do well in is Track and Field.</p>
<p>ECs:
- Badminton
- Join Japanese Quiz Bowl Team
- Join Mock Trial</p>
<p>Well I just had heart surgery 
but the good news is that alot of the med students here are giving me good contacts</p>