Is it too late for me to start volunteering?
I’m a high-school Junior and currently is mid-April. I’m interested in doing volunteer work at the public library for 30 minutes a day after-school continuously till the end of senior year.
Would I accomplish any scholarships?
Even if there aren’t any possibilities of that, I would still follow this plan for volunteering.
No, it is never too late.
Volunteering doesn’t just have to be for college apps!
Sometimes a library may give a scholarship to a HS library volunteer
Sometimes there are community service scholarships.
But these would be very small.
EDIT: It has been made clear to me that I should also state the fact that I had volunteered continuously in Freshmen year and a little in Sophomore Year. I had to stop completely this year due to recurring stress, but currently, I have spare time on my hands due to the end of the year coming.
Does that change a bit in my circumstances?
I think there are way better opportunities than the library, here it seems an easy and rather oversubscribed volunteer activity. Do you have students that need tutoring in your school? ESL leaners? In your old middle school? Try volunteer match online. Think outside of the expected and outside of school based stuff.
My skills are very limited, as well as the area of volunteering near me. The only place that I can consider volunteering would be in the library, become a firefighter (I’m very weak), volunteer at the hospital, or volunteer at an elderly home. Which in most cases needs a car. I cannot go anywhere, and I can’t let my friends drive me because of my parents. I also don’t want to pull my parents out of work to volunteer. I’m still on a student permit, but I also have my studies that I tend to on normal occasions, till now.
The local library is the closest in walking distance compared to a 15-minute DRIVE to said locations.
To be honest the only good skills I have are communication and painting.
I had planned to do a big project, but to be honest I don’t know where to start and how to start. I feel like it is too late to start a big project for me.