<p>So, let's just say I'm not the best writer around. I would be extremely grateful if you would proof read my essay and help me with it! Thank you so much! (It's do tomorrow soihavetogetitdone.) Also, should it be double, 1.5, or single spaced?
Letter of Intent:
You have been invited to join NHS to apply based on your grade point average, but in order to be a member you must demonstrate attributes that cannot be discerned from numbers on a page. Please write an essay explaining your reasons for wanting to be a member of NHS. You should discuss your understanding of the mission of NHS and the contribution you would make to the organization. Please illustrate the discussion with significant examples from your life and knowledge that demonstrate the attributes discussed. (There is also a service and leadership resume we must fill out)</p>
<p>Essay:
Walking through the hallways of high school everyday can be stressful. Friends come and try to distract you with vivid tales of their weekends. Enemies confront you with threats of gossip. Classmates judge everything about you – from your shoes to your voice. We as students must have a delicate equilibrium between our frantic home lives, our exciting social lives, our health, and even our extracurricular activities. To add on to it all, we must be successful at our tremendous amounts of school work. Despite all of this, I have found a balance. Life can seem unmanageable, but if you do it right, you can maintain a good standard in all areas. From stories I’ve heard from my upperclassmen friends that are a part of the National Honor Society, my understanding is that it has helped build their character, helped them to learn to be leaders, and involved them in their community through service. It has also grouped them with other similar students who have a love of learning. There is really no other club like it, and it would be an honor for me to be accepted. I can only hope that I embody the characteristics of the Society and am seen as a contribution to it.
Ever since I was a child, I’ve been fascinated with the world around me. Asking questions and learning about everything in sight was my hobby. To this day, academics are of utmost importance to me. School is my number one priority, and I aim to be a high achiever. I take as many advanced classes as I think I can handle. Also, I value my electives and only take ones that I feel will advance my learning experience, not ones that I can slack off in. Outside the walls of school, I like to discover new things. Reading is a great hobby of mine. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, nonfiction, I’ll read it all, but history is my true passion. Because the National Honor Society is a group that organized kids that aspire to learn as much as they can, I think I would fit in well.
When I was 13, my family took a trip to visit our relatives in Peru. Most of the time, we were surrounded by luxury, but when we took walks around the cities, I noticed most people were living in extreme poverty. The people who weren’t were generally rich. This sharp division in class bothered me, and when I returned to the U.S., I noticed these divisions were here as well, even if they weren’t as prevalent. As I started to volunteer (slowly, but surely), I realized that other groups in our society need help, too. Today, in High School, I am a member of Interact club. I have less time to give back to my community, but when I have the free time, and the club gives me the opportunity, I volunteer. Sometime, however, there are months when they just don’t give us members a chance to volunteer as much. Those times, as well as vacations, I find my own way to volunteer. Several things I do are volunteering at a soup kitchen, helping my girl scout troop with our service projects, and applying to work with young people at Rec & Ed, Youth Volunteer Corps, children’s theater groups, and summer camps like Camp Al-Gon-Quian. I think that the National Honor Society would be a great place for me to help my community even more.
I believe that learning leadership skills in high school is doubly important because it builds character and leadership is needed to succeed in college, the working world, and life as a whole. I have tried to foster my own skills by jumping right into it - by being a leader. At first, I thought the only way I could feel like and act a leader was to work with children. I did this by being on the children’s theater student relations board and working with young actors at a Rec & Ed summer camp. However, as I entered my sophomore year (finally, I was the youngest in my school no longer!), I realized that I could develop leadership skills by being a leader of my peers as well. I joined the Neutral Zone’s Visual Arts Council and helped with such things as art shows. When second semester came, I stepped it up - I joined the board of our theater group called Huron Players as Vice President Productions. It’s only been about a month, but I’ve noticed a change in myself already. I’m more responsible and treat things more seriously. I also get them done quicker (due to less procrastination.) Joining the National Honor Society would allow me to be a leader among not only my artistic peers, but among my whole school.
I believe that I excel in my community and school, and possess more than adequate ambition. I cannot judge my own character, but I do know that I try my hardest to be an example of leadership skills, responsibility, caring, morality, and trustworthiness. The National Honor Society would help my to cultivate my own skills, while exchanging ideas with my like minded peers and giving back to the community.</p>