Student story: Extracurriculars that are self created
About this video
A student explains that none of her high school's clubs interested her, so she decided to create her own opportunities. When her school moved campuses, she asked the director if she could help, organized 20 friends to coordinate the move, and later put this self-created activity on her college application.
You'll be able to
- explain what a self-created extracurricular is.
- describe how to turn an opportunity around you into a meaningful activity.
Key words
- self-created opportunity
- An activity you start yourself instead of joining an existing club.
- coordinate
- To organize people and tasks so they work together.
Transcript
- In high school, I knew that I was supposed to get involved with clubs, but I wasn't really interested in any of the options. I think I was choosing between the cheese club and social committee, and frankly none of those things were things that I was passionate about.
So, I decided I should just create opportunities for myself and I should just look for places where I could do things that I wanted to do. And so when my high school was moving campuses, I realized, "Oh, this is something I can do. "I can help coordinate a move.
"I can organize movers. "I can move furniture." So I went to the director of my school and said, "Can I help you move this school?" and she said "Sure." So I invited 20 of my friends and we organized the move and that was an opportunity that I'd created for myself and that I later put on a college application.
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