<p>From the things I google, NHS is a complete joke. lol. But I have my first meeting as an NHS member tomorrow and I'm curious what we do in these meetings. Do we sit there and listen to a teacher talk the whole time, then when she's/he's done we get to go home? And how long are these meetings generally? </p>
<p>I don't even know how I got in.</p>
<p>At my school, we’ll discuss volunteer opportunities and plan future service events, like book or food drives and what not.</p>
<p>^^ pretty much what ours does. We also eat and talk to our friends half of the time though…</p>
<p>“NHS is a complete joke”</p>
<p>Obviously the idea that the “honor” itself will help you get into college is silly, but if NHS gives you opportunities to act as a leader or work on service projects you wouldn’t have gotten to do otherwise, it’s not a joke. (A lot of times the quality of the club depends on the school.)
I’m not in NHS so I’m not sure exactly what they do at meetings, but I’d assume it’s approximately like any other club meeting? And at my school they do after-school tutoring.</p>
<p>NSH is on my class ring so it ain’t no joke. NHS serves as a way to get into out into the community and make a difference. I’ve contributed an enormous amount of hours through NHS alone. NHS varies greatly from school to school. It gives you a chance to help out your school, as well. There’s nothing better than being familiar with faculty and peers through school sponsored events.</p>
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<p>NSH? You mean [url=<a href=“http://www.nsh.org/]this[/url”>http://www.nsh.org/]this[/url</a>]? Niquii, we’re talking about NHS, not National Society for Histotechnology.</p>
<p>NHS at my school: I was inducted May of junior year (first year you can be) based on my grades (88+ average) and community service hours. We had the ceremony. It is now April of senior year and tomorrow I have to go in dressed from the waist up to take a special picture for the yearbook for NHS.</p>
<p>That is LITERALLY all we have done in NHS. Have the ceremony and take pictures for the yearbook. I have not been required to tutor people or anything like that.</p>
<p>@CE Histotechnology is where my heart lies. I live to make sure the processing of human and animal tissue is just!</p>
<p>NHS varies from school to school. At my school it’s serious. We do a lot of community service and if you don’t complete 45 NHS service hours a year you are dismissed. Our service is primarily tutoring, but we do a lot of other things too. For my friend’s school all he had to do was tutor two or three times and attend a meeting.</p>
<p>NHS is just a meeting one morning every other week for me. Oh and a bit of time in the spring to plan a relay for life, then busy for a week or so for that. Very little time commitment or point to it for the most part, the relay for life is a big event though.</p>
<p>why would you ever go the meetings in the first place//</p>
<p>Out of curiousity are Honor Societies considered ECs or awards</p>
<p>@Harvey To stay in the club…</p>
<p>@TheAtlantic I put it as an EC mainly because of time commitment.</p>
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<p>They’re in a special category called “meaningless garbage.”</p>
<p>Looks like someone’s bitter…<em>whistles and looks away</em></p>
<p>^^ why you so aggie?</p>
<p>@Niquii: Nope, not bitter. I was elected to be treasurer of my school’s NHS actually, but I declined the position because I really didn’t want to do it. I personally find ours a waste of time; we do absolutely nothing but waste people’s time once a month, and charge expensive dues.</p>
<p>Hey, no need for an explanation everyone has their reasons…BUT…you had a chance to change it and did nothing. You could’ve done something.</p>
<p>^Probably. I didn’t want to because I have no desire to spend my days doing “community service” and other supposedly “virtuous” activities, but someone else in my position could have. My replacement though, didn’t.</p>
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Why’d you apply in the first place then?</p>