How many hours do you have?

MedBound17
Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:06:19 +0000

This thread made me a lot more confident than I was before…

I’ve met a fair amount of kids with immense numbers of hours tracked, and almost every one of them is as cynical and uncompassionate as a corrupt politician- I’ve heard a number of them say that they don’t even like helping “worthless beggars” and “burdens on society” but hey, “it looks good on applications,” so they track each and every minute of service, from the homeless shelter to helping carry papers to the office. It’s sickening.

I hope that what people here say is true and that hours matter less than real service and leadership- not to sound self-righteous, but I feel better when I help just for the sake of helping, and I deliberately lose track of hours.

Hopefully that won’t ruin my chances of getting into a top school, but I wouldn’t want to go to one that doesn’t understand the difference between real service and hour-whoring.