Extracurricular activities show that you are doing more than just school. Colleges like to see people that are outgoing and that will help contribute to the student life of the university (a college of recluses is boring). For example, I am a member of Science Olympiad, NHS, FBLA, swimming, cross country, as well as tutoring when needed. Granted, I have an empty schedule due to the lack of high enough courses at my school, but I didn't my last years and I was in extracurricular activities nonetheless. I have a friend who has no extra time (she is dropping a class to get some though), and she is in Science Olympiad, NHS, and she plays at least 2 instruments very well and she's the drum major for the band. Extracurricular activities always look good to colleges and employers. And while work isn't as good, it does show some extra initiative.

@Kerm: Thanks.

hmm, I haven't done a whole ton in that field. I was in the Scouts, did Mock Trail one year, and last year (and hopefully this year), I was on the robotics team.

Let's see...I was a boy scout for about 5 years, then when I moved here I became a martial artist, and now I'm an instructor

So I've really only done two "extra-curricular" activities, but I've gotten far in both...(although now with 6 AP classes and just looking at my report card (!) I need to switch to the uberman sleep schedule )

I'm on the math team, I'm part of the web developing club, I was on the soccer team, I was on baseball, basketball and hockey teams as well, I'm part of a group that helps poor people out by doing yardwork and building stuff for them, I play the violin and the piano (and take private lessons for each), am part of the school's orchestra (which is kind of part of the curriculum, but still...) and was in band (and I've been in orchestras not affiliated with my school), I played the saxophone, and I would have been on the wrestling team but I was too busy . I hope those are enough extra-curricular activities.

Speaking of comp. clubs...I recently met the new president of the computer club at my school...omfg he's such a fucking dumbass. Even worse than netham even; this guy doesn't know shit! He just randomly throws terms out to appeal to lesser animals...

Ask him what languages he know and then hand a few pages of code from that language without comments and random naming =P

Have him try to figure out what it does

He codes in VB

And I love his quotes:



Sadly, I was the only one dying of laughter (then again, no one got the 127.0.0.1 hack joke either...)

If he responds Python, recruit him for T83...

For what, bashing?

That's not a bad idea!

Oh sweet jesus... Since when has 3 been quad? And since when has raid 0 had to do with graphic cards?

Point him over here so we can bash him to death

You forgot that parity checking is a RAM thing used only in servers...
EDIT: Well, ok, maybe not ONLY servers, but close to it...

Parity is also used in RAID arrays...

Well I didn't really know that, so I can't insult him on that now can I?

Oh well, I guess I will

N00B!

/me searches archive...
Not RAID 0 or 1, like RAID 5 mayhaps?

yeah, RAID 5 is striping with parity. Also, isn't crossfire for ATI cards?

Yep. and GeForce ain't ATI
(Hopefully the latter didn't need to be said, but it's an additional irony.)

...and there's no quad-crossfire yet, either there is quad-SLI, but its done with only two cards

I thought crossfire supported more than 2 cards...?

I've seen a pic of a MaximumPC test system with four Nvidia video cards...