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Extra-Curricular Activities to Boost Your College Resume

Janet Ruth Heller is interviewed in a podcast about “15+ Extra-Curricular Activities to Boost Your College Resume,” now live at https://smartsocial.com/extra-curricular-activities-resume/

This interview was posted on January 24, 2018 on the website SmartSocial.

Here is some of my advice:

I recommend that middle and high school students consider tutoring younger students in reading, mathematics, science, music, etc. This experience will be especially good for future teachers, but many individuals enjoy tutoring as a way to give back to the community. Such volunteer work will also prepare students to deal with a wide range of people in any future jobs.

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).