The Skewed Mindset of Volunteering

I was favored enough to provide at Vanney Cook Cancer come up located in McAllen. This checkup Center encour get ons individuals seeking to extend their time to organize their facilities and the racy amount of toys Vanney Cook receives from in effect(p)-hearted institutions. The ethical concern I want to analyze in this essay is the mindset I believe the majority of senior senior mellow direct seniors tend to eat up when it comes to volunteering. \nDuring the latter part of jet of 2013, I frequently talked with ane of my closest friends, Bruno Arjona, more or less my college aspirations. aft(prenominal) long chats about our college applications, Bruno and I quickly completed that our resumes were in a lot of trouble. Bruno and I were heavily involved in naughty school play; consequently, our resumes droped any high school academic achievements or involvement. Bruno then pitched the idea of volunteering; hoping that a certain amount of hours volunteering would t o near degree compensate for our lack of academic involvement. I apprehension it was a great idea, and during the summer of 2013, we volunteered a total amount of 52 hours. \nDuring this volunteering process, I realized that a lot of students my age were volunteering for the wrong reasons (including myself), in ordination to stand out on a resume. Every high school student in the country has an incentive to volunteer in a beneficent organization because it looks really good on a high school resume. I seldom met high school students that started volunteering because of real(a) sympathy, and could care less about any recognition on a resume. Then you dupe a few students that limit out that having a comprehensive resume requires some slip of volunteering, and volunteer solely for that reason. Now, I believe the majority of high school students enter a volunteering program with both intentions: to assist people in need, and bring up their resumes. I wonder though, if these comparable students, including myself, were denied any recogniti...