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Getting involved in high school is important for so many reasons. I know that many people can’t see the point of joining the Honor Society, the band, or a dozen other activities. Today I’m going to give you the perspective of someone who is 4 years out of any high school organization.

Why Join?

I was an organization whore in high school. I played basketball and baseball. I was in the Honors Society, Beta Club (VP), Science Honors Society (Treasurer), FBLA, and there are probably several others I can’t remember anymore. Let me be honest. I did not care about a single thing I was in besides sports. As far as I know, neither did anyone else. You join these clubs for one reasons: college applications.

One of the post popular articles on Digg today is by the Washington Post. It deals with parents and facebook. It is a really interesting look at the dynamics between kids and their parents now that the popular social networking site, facebook, is open to everyone. Frankly, it would really weird me out if my parents or relatives were perusing my facebook profile even though I have nothing to hide. Not that long ago, my old youth pastor added me online and I had to think twice about that. Check out the article here.

Do you think facebook should be open to everyone?

I came across a great post by studenthack today. It provides over 100 web resources for research, papers, studying and anything else you can think of. Check out 101+ web resources here.

I’ve had a few questions sent to me about finding, applying for, and receiving scholarships, so I thought I would give a very simple introduction to scholarships today. When I was in my senior year of high school I spent a large amount of time applying for scholarships and was able to receive enough financial aid to cover the entire cost of my undergraduate degree as well as extra spending money. Here are my initial thoughts on the issue.

I saw today on collegeboard.com a great article on 20 questions every high schooler should ask their high school counselor. Here is the list. I hope any high school kids (especially younger one’s with time left) take a look at the list. Your counselor is one of your best resource for anything both school related and college related. These people are there to help and are usually greatly underutilized.