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At the first day of high school, I had always wanted to join as many organizations as I could, especially National Honor Society, because I want to make my high school life as memorable as possible. Furthermore, the white stole for graduation from National Honor Society was really tempting. However, as time passed, I knew that there was more than just a white stole in that organization. In my senior year of high school, I successfully joined National Honor Society with the goals of gaining knowledge, building trust with other members and officers, and actively getting involved with the club activities. For someone who does not want to be involved in anything in my junior high school, National Honor Society gave me a lot of happy memories. …show more content…
Just like other student organizations, most of the activities of National Honor Society are community services. Yet, unlike any others organization, not anyone who wanted to get in this club can easily become its member. The members of NHS can only be juniors and seniors. Not only that, to be a member, I had to have not only good grades, but also proofs that I did or currently doing community services by turning in the application with the signature of the sponsors. The meetings were twice a month, every other Monday from 3pm to 5pm. Even though, attending the meetings were not required, they can give me the information of when and where I can go do community services. Once I became a member, there are a certain number of hours of community services that I need to complete in order to receive a stole for graduation. I had to have 20 hours done outside of the club and 20 hours done inside the club. Luckily, there were a lot of opportunities for me to do to complete my required inside hours such as making sandwiches for the homeless, volunteer at Mission Arlington, or donating shoes,

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