<p>hobby: writing books, inventing, programming, collecting, and so on...</p>
<p>It can be in some cases but it isn’t always.
Collecting isn’t really an EC.
Programming can be.
Writing books isn’t, publishing a book is
Inventing can be depending on what you make and what you do with your inventions. If you ‘invent’ something that already exists or has existed it’s not impressive.</p>
<p>^writing books is an EC. an EC is something you spent a good amount of time in that you’re interested in. </p>
<p>“If you ‘invent’ something that already exists or has existed it’s not impressive.”
No one’s looking for awards from every EC (although they help of course). if you spend a good amount of time in it, it’s an EC you should put down.</p>
<p>I could say I wrote a book but there is no way to prove it until I publish it. </p>
<p>If I invent a mop with scraper on it, it exists so I didn’t invent it. A lot of things invented have existed just aren’t popular that’s part of the reason why so many patents filed are denied. I didn’t mention awards, just that it’s not inventing if it exists.</p>
<p>By your definition of EC playing video games in my living room would be an EC</p>
<p>you don’t have to prove your EC’s… writing still counts as an EC. many people put it down. I get your point on inventing though.</p>
<p>“By your definition of EC playing video games in my living room would be an EC”
well, yes, an EC is really hard to define. it seems to basically seems to be anything you spend alot of time in outside of school work which our society doesn’t consider “useless” (i.e. playing video games).</p>
<p>It depends a lot on where you are applying how much weight EC’s hold. There are schools that you can get into with high grades and test scores and no ECs.
You could put down anything, it doesn’t make it a real EC. There is a really fine line between hobby and EC and sometimes you can make a hobby be an EC.</p>