<p>Chess Club (No Leadership)
French Honor Society (No Leadership)
Science Honor Society (No Leadership)
Mu Alpha Theta <a href=“No%20Leadership”>Math</a>
National Honor Society (No Leadership)</p>
<p>Used to be part of SWAT (Students Working Against Tobacco), but I moved…
No Spanish Honor Society this year (no teacher wants to do it >_>)
Don’t play a sport; don’t play an instrument.</p>
<p>I still haven’t called for my interview to volunteer at the hospital. >.<</p>
<p>I totally feel that way and it stresses me out so much. I feel like I’m not going to get into a good college. The problem is my grades are really bad right now and to bring them up, I have to sacrifice ECs for the timebeing.</p>
<p>But not only that, my only ECs are lame. I have no leadership positions but I have a genuine interest in leadership.</p>
<p>-Writing (I’m working on entering contests this year and stuff, and went to a summer program. And basically, this is something I’m really dedicated to and will hopefully translate into a career.)
-French. I’m in the club and want to take the National Exam.
-Debate. =life. Crossing my fingers for nationals…
-Tutoring at a local after-school center for “at risk” kids or whatever. Basically nice, smart kids with absentee or Spanish-speaking parents.
-Hopefully a newspaper internship</p>
<p>Not that much. But I love what I do and I honestly wouldn’t have the time to pursue it well if I did a thousand other things. I also love to read. And drink coffee. And make teenage memories with my friends. Basically, my goal (I’m only a sophomore, btw) is to sit in a college interview and be able to be a person. A nerdy, introspective person who perhaps thinks more than she should, but still a person. Seriously, guys, the most successful people are rarely those who live for a transcript.</p>
<p>Can we all just relax and be happy? No matter how crude Invoyable may sometimes be, we could stand to be a little more like him (i.e., not stressed out about everything–or in his case, anything). You are all amazing people with amazing strengths, so just focus on doing your best and above all, being happy. What’s the point of doing anything if you’re not happy?</p>
Someone has finally understood something, that I don’t actually post worthless quality posts every other day nowadays (if you’ve noticed, I didn’t used to do that a couple months ago) for no reason, but because of all the similarly minded people that keep being hyped about every little trivial aspect of anything, too many threads with “I’m failing X”, “I’m not this!”, “I’m stupid”, kind of posts when all it can be construed on an honest examination is sentimental and fabricated hogwash. While I understand that people worry, sometimes it gets borderline ridiculous as if it’s something too major or if it’s something that will alter their life drastically; a B won’t kill you, the fact that you’re on this website asking this question probably means that you’re above “average” anyways.</p>
<p>When I read the thread title and read this as part of the OP
I can’t help but laugh and reply with my sardonic and somewhat offensive post.</p>
<p>This isn’t a lot of EC’s? This is a “that’s it”? Violin, with supposedly it being a passion/something that he/she’s proficient in, volunteering, some clubs which I presume to be more and etc, and a sport? Sometimes I wonder if some of these people post just to cause attention and induce false petty-hopeful hogwash from others.</p>
<p>Again, people worry. Still, if you’re smart enough to do these EC’s, worry, and similarly post on a college website, you probably are smart enough to know that this doesn’t do anything nor that you aren’t really “lacking”. Some of this is seriously ridiculous, and with this kind of EC if you truly have this type of sentiment and mentality enough to make such a thread and such a post, then you’re either comparing yourself too much to others that are far above your league, or simply deluding yourself with false information that you know isn’t true, both cases in which are an emphatic epic fail.</p>
<p>QED, 99% of the time such threads are filled with nonsense. I am truly the only one I’ve seen that’s a genuine person with little EC’s and “below” level quality in academics.</p>
<p>I don’t have a ton, but I spend a lot of time on most of those I do have.</p>
<p>Ballet, which is huge for me. Four days a week this year. I might try to up it.
Community Service- I think I need to do this more, but I do a lot. Tutoring (explained later), Community Action Team (have hosted yard sales for 2 years in a row), Habitat for Humanity, political volunteering
Interned as a middle school teacher this summer
Academic Quiz Team- featuring last year’s teen jeopardy champion!
Tutor- I was an elementary school tutor last year and now I’m one at my school
Piano- I just go to lessons, so I don’t know what I could say.
Art- I just take classes and it’s on and off. Probably not worth mention</p>
<p>I have more than my sister, and she goes to Northwestern, so who cares?</p>
<p>I participate in various extracurriculars at school that I’m pretty sure most people wouldn’t really care about even if I do list them. So I’m only gonna write the one that really matters, and is dearest to my heart:</p>
No matter how crude Invoyable may sometimes be, we could stand to be a little more like him (i.e., not stressed out about everything–or in his case, anything). You are all amazing people with amazing strengths, so just focus on doing your best and above all, being happy. What’s the point of doing anything if you’re not happy?</p>