Gettin' Extra-Curricular
Alright, so you're at the semester break of your senior year in high school, and you're a little nervous about bolstering your college application. What can you do? Improve your grades? Not really an option. This would involve two things you either don't want to do or don't have: hard work and time. Or you could hack into the school's computer system, but that might take hard work and time. Rule it out. You could write a better essay. I covered that in a previous blog post. But what if that's not enough? Luckily there is one more element of your college application that you have complete control over and which you can bolster with as little time, effort, energy and thought as possible. I'm talking, of course, about extra-curricular activities.
Once you get to college, and trust me I've been there, the only extra-curricular activities that will matter to you are things that would've gotten you arrested in high school and ultimate frisbee. Ultimate frisbee, for those of you unaware, is a combination of throwing a frisbee and pretending to play a real sport. It's great for people who wanted to be athletes, or maybe even were in high school, but want a sport where there's no coach and "sorry I was playing Mario Kart" is an acceptable excuse for mising practice.
So why not get a jump on college, and create an ultimate frisbee club at your high school? When I was in high school a group of enterprising youths was not only so smart as to do this once, but do it every single year. Think about it, it's perfect. No one will question it, because it's the kind of thing where someone can't really tell if you're playing an organized sport by just watching it and no school administrator knows a frisbee from a hackey sack any damn way. Not only does this allow you to get some school-sponsered credit for an activity you would be doing anyway, having a new club every year creates new bureaucratic positions, such as President, Vice President, and Frisbee Maintenance Technician. Plus it's going to make a huge impression on admissions officers to show that you're already tossing disc at a college level.
Once you get to college, and trust me I've been there, the only extra-curricular activities that will matter to you are things that would've gotten you arrested in high school and ultimate frisbee. Ultimate frisbee, for those of you unaware, is a combination of throwing a frisbee and pretending to play a real sport. It's great for people who wanted to be athletes, or maybe even were in high school, but want a sport where there's no coach and "sorry I was playing Mario Kart" is an acceptable excuse for mising practice.
So why not get a jump on college, and create an ultimate frisbee club at your high school? When I was in high school a group of enterprising youths was not only so smart as to do this once, but do it every single year. Think about it, it's perfect. No one will question it, because it's the kind of thing where someone can't really tell if you're playing an organized sport by just watching it and no school administrator knows a frisbee from a hackey sack any damn way. Not only does this allow you to get some school-sponsered credit for an activity you would be doing anyway, having a new club every year creates new bureaucratic positions, such as President, Vice President, and Frisbee Maintenance Technician. Plus it's going to make a huge impression on admissions officers to show that you're already tossing disc at a college level.
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