<p>what does everyone do for fun (hopefully!)? and how many hours/week do you do it..</p>
<p>ill start:
varsity tennis (25 hours/week for only the fall)
club for animal protection
fbla
math team
cancer prevention club
club for helping out local homeless children
science olympiad
science league
origami club
future doctors club</p>
<p>i also play piano and violin, and i volunteer at the hospital</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>tennis team (jv captain)
young democrats club (was historian and treasurer)
AFS club
orchestra
viola lessons
helping 1st graders every sunday in sunday school (the kids are adorable :) )
NHS</p>
<p>I am only a Freshmen, but here are mine so far: (I need more community service) </p>
<p>7 years of youth community theatre
3 years of teen community theatre
2 years of adult community theatre
2 years of assistant directing youth community theatre
Freshmen class president
Student body recording secretary
Freshmen steering president
Save Darfur Club (founder and president)</p>
<p>(im only a freshman, worth a shot anyway, not too impressive)</p>
<p>debate team / club - 8 hours per week
Mu Alpha Theta - 2 hours per week discluding competitions
Varsity Flag Football - 8 hours per week
Volunteer for the City of ***
Tutor middle school students in math
Have a job at the supermarket - 13 hours per week</p>
<p>When I turn 15, I'm applying to volunteer at the local hospital, and when I"m 16 I'm getting an internship in the business field ( my uncle is EXTREMELY well known and has amazing connections ).</p>
<p>Eh, My ECs are really not up to par.</p>
<p>-Cross Country (summer and fall)
-Varsity Track (winter and spring)
-Debate
-Hospital Volunteering
-Shadowing of Doctors/Surgeons
-An Acadamy within school focused on public policy ( monthly lectures, weekly meetings, w/ one week immersion at a UC this summer, and internship senior year)</p>
<p>Swim (during the fall), 9-14 hours a week.
Student Gov't, 1 hour a week (only meet once a week during lunch).
Lit. Magazine, 1 hour a week (same as above).
Writing and editing aforementioned writing, 1-4 hours a week.
Piano, ~3 hours a week (I should practice more, but I don't really have the time or motivation).</p>
<p>Soccer
Swimming
Track
(all varsity)
School Band
Math League
Volunteer at a Frank Lloyd Wright house</p>
<p>It may not be much compared to some others, and not nearly as impressive, but I do everything I do for my personal enjoyment, which I think it what really matters. I hate those kids who say 'sign up for this club! It looks GREAT on a college application!'</p>
<p>Anyway...
Community Council (~2hours/week)
Field Hockey (fall~12hours)
Ice Hockey (winter ~9 hours/week, more with games)
Track (spring~10hours)
Math team (~4 hours/day but only once a month)
Ocean Bowl Team (~1hour/week)
Executive Council (~1hour/week)
Piano (as much as possible)
Sleep (yeah, it counts-as much as possible)
Volunteering (when I can)
Work (at the itty bitty town general store, only~9hours/week)</p>
<p>HOKAY!</p>
<p>classical piano-10.5 hours/week
yearbook-around 7 hours/week
golf club-about 2 hours/week for 6 weeks in fall
volunteer-4 hrs/week
varsity golf-about 4 hours/week practice for two months, 14 hours/week for about two weeks in may
newspaper assistant editor-about 7 hours/week 4x a year
JV math team-40 mins/5x a year & 40 min practice test 5 x a year
latin club-2 hr/month</p>
<p>blah. it might look like a laundry list, but I really do like the stuff I'm in. Actually, this is very cut down from frosh year when I was literally in 5 more clubs (eek..). I basically do piano, yearbook, and volunteer as my highest commitments</p>
<p>master debater</p>
<p>~15 min/night</p>
<p>Yikes, so many involved people :) i'm from a small town, so we really don't have all those clubs
umm...
Knowledge Bowl
FCCLA Parliamentary Team (national gold medal)
FPS
Junior Class Treasurer
Sophomore Class Rep
Hospital **job<a href="don't%20i%20feel%20special:">/B</a>)
Jazz Band
Volunteer at local library
Honor Society</p>
<p>Destroying liberals...literally (168 hrs/week)</p>
<p>Only 168 hours a week? You need to put in a little more time to show dedication to the destruction of liberals :-)</p>
<ol>
<li>tax firm (35 hours/week for 2.5 years, 50 weeks a year b/c of 2 weeks vacation)</li>
<li>lender's firm (15 hours/week, 52 weeks a year b/c I've only been working here 9 months, and I need to work here 3 more in order to earn vacations)</li>
<li>FBLA (5-7.5 hours/week, 40 weeks a year for the past 3 years as Chapter VP, Chapter P, Section VP, Section P, and State VP; most of the work is done during school time, right before, or right after, though)</li>
</ol>
<p>I have 300 hours in community service because of IB, but for the most part, I can only handle 2 steady jobs and FBLA.</p>
<p>not the greatest:</p>
<ol>
<li>Volunteer at Hospital (Info Desk) - 3 hrs per week</li>
<li>Volunteer at Library (Chess Club) - Teach kids how to play chess</li>
<li>Band - Percussion</li>
<li>Tennis (JV) - 1 year</li>
<li>Robotics - Mechanical Team (8-10 hrs per week)</li>
<li>Teaching Kids with Autism (1 hr per week)</li>
</ol>
<p>This is not including Summer Programs/ Jobs.</p>
<p>sophomore, 2 years to go:</p>
<ol>
<li>Lincoln Douglas Debate - (10 hours a week) </li>
<li>Mock Trial Attorney - (4-5 hours a week)</li>
<li>Model United Nations - (2 hours a week)</li>
<li>Fencing - (5 hours a week)</li>
<li>Orchestra/Violin lessons- (varies)</li>
<li>Art/Club - (varies)</li>
<li>Student Council Representative (nothing, literally)</li>
<li>Latin Club - (even more nothing, playing Bocce)</li>
</ol>
<p>I want to join Newspaper, run for president and get started on volunteering, I think those things would complete my list. Hopefully, I'll rise to managing positions in these clubs/activities. In junior year, I should qualify for Mu Alpha Theta, Science HS, Latin HS, and National HS. I'm considering joining things like yearbook and our school TV station, and any advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>math league
key club
FBLA
newspaper
consumer bowl
NHS (will be in it next yr for sure)
tri-M --- i want to be inducted since i PLAY for it. idk....</p>
<p>community service ~ 250 hrs </p>
<p>jobs:
teaches chinese
telemarketing - will go back to it eventually lol</p>
<p>music-
Gu-zheng (since i was 10-11 i think)</p>
<p>wow my ECs suck compared to everyone's =)
but thats okayy since i basically do ECs to get away from all those grades and schoolwork etc.</p>
<p>10th:
- Nuclear physics research with University of Washington
- Freelance software dev. contract with same University
11th (not much):
- Cross country
- Junior C++ Dev at a software company</p>
<p>mr_chipset
is the university program for the local area only?</p>
<p>Volleyball (15hrs a week)
Wrestling (20+ hrs a week)
Mock Trial (1-6hrs a week)
Hospital Volunteer (150-250 hrs so far)
Radio DJ, WVPH 90.3 FM (1.5-2hrs a week)
Key Club (1hr a week)
Science Math Awareness Program (1hr a week)
Medical Club (1hr a week)</p>
<p>Hope to be getting a job soon as well...</p>