<p>Does anyone else feel terrible about asking supervisors to sign volunteer hours forms?
I feel horribly guilty, like I’m just quantifying volunteering.</p>
<p>You are quantifying volunteering. That’s why you feel that way.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s necessarily anything wrong with quantifying volunteering. But I certainly don’t think quantifying volunteering has much of a beneficial effect on college admissions, either.</p>
<p>But I think I get what you’re saying. You don’t want to be this guy: [Soup-Kitchen</a> Volunteers Hate College-Application-Padding Brat | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source](<a href=“http://www.theonion.com/articles/soupkitchen-volunteers-hate-collegeapplicationpadd,1422/]Soup-Kitchen”>Soup-Kitchen Volunteers Hate College-Application-Padding Brat). (NOTE: the article linked contains foul language and biting satire.)</p>
<p>I don’t see how it matters what people’s motives are for volunteering, or whether they quantify it or not. The job gets done either way, y’know? People get helped whether the volunteer’s “heart was in it” or not.</p>
<p>Personally I am okay with it. I volunteer because I like volunteering am very committed to the organizations that I volunteer with. That being said, every now and then I am in a situation where I need to confirm volunteer hours, I see nothing wrong with this.</p>
<p>I sort of hate how we have to volunteer to pad applications. Volunteerism should be done for the sake of altruism. I usually help people because I truly believe that “you don’t need a reason to help people” (Cyber-cookie for whoever gets this.), not because it will open my path towards a top tier college.</p>