<p>I'm gonna go ahead and admit I'm doing this for my college resume. Yeah, I know.
Still, I'm not looking for simplistic clubs that are clubs only in name. I'm looking for ideas that I can do, and help lead, and hopefully, if it doesn't fail, make active and a bit lasting.</p>
<p>I already have idea to reinstate the art club at out school. The teacher got fired last year, so I'm quite not sure if she's still here this year, so I need to find out if it's there. I have plans for a literary club to help create fiction and literature, submit to competitions and different magizines, while maybe establishing a school literary magazine (selling magazines as fundraising). Maybe a international language club, as we only have a spanish club. The language club will help promote not just culture, but actual study and understanding of language and other languages themselves, including helpful unknowns/deads like latin and esperanto. I have a small idea for a music club, to discuss and do something with music, not sure what, help composers/composing, and give music recommendations on the announcements daily/weekly.</p>
<p>So, any comments and additional ideas? Something creativity and technocentric would help, as those I can help the most with.</p>
<p>Even if you’re just making this for college, if you make it to work in tandem with your number one EC, you could get a lot of points (figuratively speaking).</p>
<p>Start one club – selecting something you’d love. If you start one club and put your heart into organizing it and having an active membership and meaningful activities, that will take all of your free time. You don’t need to start two clubs. In fact, if you do a good job starting one club, you won’t have time or energy to organize another.</p>
<p>Also, most colleges don’t care about ECs. They make decisions strictly based on academic stats and --for publics – students’ states of residence. It’s only places like Harvard that can use ECs to pick and choose from an overabundance of high stat applicants.</p>
<p>The primary benefit of doing ECs is that doing so enriches your life, teaches leadership/social skills and helps you develop and strengthen your interests and talents.</p>
<p>Align it with the strengths of your application. If you know more than a few languages, then create a language club; if your prospective major is literature, do the literary club.</p>
<p>Before I read your entire post, I was thinking one cool school club idea would be a music composition thing. Like you get together to brainstorm and write songs, meet others that could play your music, and maybe output a CD at the end. If you can get a budget to get some nice recording equipment and software and you get a music room, all the better. Even if you can’t, you can just resort to audacity, a 20 dollar microphone, or a line-in if you are using digital instruments.</p>
<p>Then I read you have a passion for music and technology and have already thought of a music club, so there you have it.</p>
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Well then you’re not just doing this for a college resume.</p>
<p>yeah, i’m not just doing it for a college resume- those things are ideas i chose first because i can actually do things.
I’m still doing it FOR the resume, though, so if anyone can just give some help pitching ideas, that’ll be great.</p>
<p>Remember that if you want anyone to participate, it has to be worth their time. Have specific goals or activities that serve a beneficial purpose other than just padding a college application. It might sound cool to know some Esperanto, but in between tests and papers and other extracurriculars, is it going to be important enough for anybody to actually put the time into it? Starting a literary magazine is a great idea – every school from elementary on up should have one – but don’t expect to sell copies to anyone who isn’t in it.</p>