Student story: Extracurriculars that are a passion
About this video
A student explains that she never chose extracurriculars just to get into college; she picked activities she loved and gave them her best. She describes journalism, theater and community service, and shows how each one carried over into her college life, major and career.
You'll be able to
- explain the difference between doing activities to impress colleges and doing them out of passion.
- describe how a high school activity can carry over into college studies or a career.
Key words
- extracurriculars
- Activities you do outside regular classes, like clubs, sports, theater or volunteering.
- community service
- Unpaid work that helps people in your community, such as volunteering with a church or local group.
- major
- The main subject you choose to study in college.
Transcript
- So I never looked at extracurriculars as a way to get into college 'cause that was not my purpose of doing them at all. I actually didn't like when people said, "Oh, you should do a lot to get into college." I always looked at it as, like, what did I like to do, what do I love to do, and I'm going to do it to the best, and that's how I always looked at extracurriculars, so I got involved in so many things because of that, not to get into college.
I was in journalism, I loved it, and we would have production days 'til, like, late at night, write articles. I was in theater, and that was just so much fun. I also did a lot of community service with my church and my friends, and that was a really, really great opportunity to be out there doing public service, and all of those really transferred over to what I did later on.
Community service ended up running my entire career, both in college and beyond. Drama served me both in college, as I did Drama, and also in extra summer camps when I did during the school year, and then, the last one, journalism, ended up becoming part of my major, so all of that transferred over to what I did.
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