<p>I am really opposed to volunteering but I must whore myself for college.</p>
<p>So where would be a good place to volunteer, a library, hospital, old folks home?</p>
<p>how can you be opposed to volunteering?</p>
<p>Oppose is such a harsh word.</p>
<p>I don't favor volunteering, either, personally, out of moral standards (won't do it unless I sincerely want to help, and not just to write a line on an application or resume), but if you must, volunteer clinics are fairly nice, as is the SPCA, if you like animals.</p>
<p>Volunteer doing something you'll enjoy. For example, if you like working with animals, then volunteer at your local zoo.</p>
<p>That would make an interesting app essay...</p>
<p>"Why I Oppose Working Without Pay"</p>
<p>I work at the school library. They seem to genuinely need the help.</p>
<p>Or an even better application essay, one that is bound to get you accepted into the top colleges: "Why I oppose helping other people unless I get paid."</p>
<p>What is your passion? Find a way to implement it into your volunteer work.</p>
<p>IE if you're an engineering kinda person, design toys for disabled children.</p>
<p>well because the most common places like clinics they have people to do the work and ur just making their life easier. </p>
<p>if their job is super hard, it is supposed ot be hard, that will make them develop the need for a better career and not a dependence on college whores who volunteer.</p>
<p>i would rather volunteer in a new business that in its first hectic weeks</p>
<p>so library, clinic, and where would i design the toys, some program?</p>
<p>I can understand the whole feeling of not wanting to volunteer just to put it on a resume. What I'm doing is putting only a certain number of hours down on my college application for the volunteering I do at the local library branch. I basically help with the arts and crafts, organize books, decorate, etc.
Then, I volunteer to volunteer. I've been helping out one of my former teachers with grading papers and such simply because I like her, and I want to help. I don't think I'm going to get her to write me a recommendation because I feel like I would be using her.
Anyhow, if you really want to volunteer at a place in its first week, I suggest looking for the development of new hospitals or schools in your area. I know that there is always something being built where I live, so maybe you could check. You could also volunteer at a younger sibling's school or go to an elementary school and help kids learn to read. You could check with teachers around you because they usually need help, and it would be making their lives easier.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Out of all my volunteer activities, vacation bible school was my favorite. I guess I have an affinity for little kids because I have much younger siblings, so I naturally had fun here and got positive comments from other adult leaders on how I treated them.</p>
<p>Habitat for Humanity thrift store is where I got most of my hours, and while it was okay it wasn't all that great. Kind of musty store, creepy people, but I was never weirded out or found the work annoying or hard. Nice people working there in the end kept me coming back.</p>
<p>Retirement home. I volunteered at one for two hours before scrambling out of there and never going back. Maybe I just went there on an off-day, but nearly all patients there were depressed or non-respondent. I'm obviously not an old-people person.</p>
<p>Home-repairing project with youth group. This was a lot of fun as I did it with my youth group who obviously is comprised of a lot of my good friends. Though I affirmed that I needed to go to college rather than following in my father's footsteps and becoming a builder, it still was a heck of a lot of fun and very rewarding in seeing the people's reactions (maybe not as good as Extreme Home Makeover, but close).</p>
<p>In the end, do something with a friend or with really nice people. People make the difference, which made my experience at the retirement home terrible compared to my others.</p>
<p>You really don't NEED volunteering hours to get into college. Sure, nowadays, almost everybody volunteers ( like a common trend these days) But if you're not really into the Volunteering-thing, don't do it. It would be a big waste of time because you're doing it just for college. Even worse, if you don't find any enthusiasm whatsoever in volunteering, that would be a big time-waster. Instead, why not pursuing other activities that really interest you and best suit your interests?</p>
<p>i love horseback riding and kids so i do equine therapy for the mentally challenged. i'm enraged by the public school system, so i have plans to draft a mission for an orginization that would make more advanced classes available to willing students and i tutor homeless childen. i'm a good writer, so i write grant proposals for needy charities (most recently, a non-profit that encourages high school students in Bangladesh to stay in school) that can't afford to hire a writer.</p>
<p>what a redundant question. do something you're passionate about. you like to play soccer? organize a youth league for the underpriveleged, get a famous/semi-famous soccer player to sign a soccer ball and then give it to some kid in your neighborhood who used to love soccer but is now paralyzed and can't play. want to get kids into reading? organize a book drive and drop off the collected books at a local run-down elementry school. whatever.</p>
<p>I second everyone else here who said don't do it if it's only for college. The only way, imo, that you can really last at a volunteering place is if you really like the place, and you are honestly getting something from it. </p>
<p>I'm a rather artsy person and am going into that field. I started volunteering at a rather big gallery three years ago and stayed on until last year. The first year was great, you get to go to the exhibitions for free and find out how a gallery really operates. The next year though, they put me in this gig that was essentially playing with little children who sometimes didn't even want my "intervention" or "interruption." Suffice to say, spending five hours every Sunday doing something that I didn't really like anymore, it made me feel horrible. I dreaded going there afterwhile. And well in the end I lasted only two months. </p>
<p>A year later though I found another museum that centers more on my field (graphic design) and though we basically do administrative stuff around the gallery, it's been a joy actually going there week in and week out. I guess this time around I enjoy it more because they have a very small staff so they depend on volunteers a lot to do almost all the things in the museum. Each week it's different, sometimes I'm photographing their exhibitions, installing artwork for new exhibitions or just database entry stuff. You learn something new every time. So I don't really mind spending my afternoons there pro-bono. </p>
<p>I think the most important thing when trying to find a volunteer gig is to get one that'll let you learn something you never knew before. Because it's awful to be in a situation where there's no motivation to even go and sacrifice that much time when you're bored out of your mind doing mindless things.</p>