.          From my time at Westfield so far, one of the things I have noticed is that literally everyone is the president of a club. There are countless clubs at Westfield, and when I say “countless,¨ I mean some of these clubs aren’t even on the school website, and the “official” list feels longer than a five-day week at school.
.          “In terms of students starting clubs, there are various reasons students start clubs. One of them could be to look good on college applications because getting into college is [getting] so much harder, so we do understand that,” stated Issac Bumgardner, Assistant Director of Student Activities.
.          When asked if she only started her club, Culture Club, so she could put it on her college application, Godha Aravindan, 10, responded with, “Definitely! Starting clubs is really good for college applications, but I’m not really passionate about what my club is about, and I’m just doing it so I get into a good college.”
.          Maritza Becker, 10, co-president of Women of Westfield, mentioned, “Obviously, that’s not what we were thinking at first, but during your high school career, you should at least have some leadership, ” When asked if she thought it was important to have a club she was the president of to stand out in the admissions process.
.          I did a lot of student interviews for this article except most of them made no sense (The ones above were good). At first I thought my questions just weren’t phrased right, but now I’ve realized, most people don’t want to admit they don’t care about their club at all. Honestly, It’s not that big of a deal because if someone sought you out for an interview, everyone already knows that you hate your club.
.          One good counter argument for my point would be that you need 20 people to start a cub. I’ve seen people get 20 people within two class periods, so your counter-argument just got debunked, sorry. If you’re struggling to get 20 people, you can exit the article now because I don’t know what to tell you. Even Mr. Bumgardner agrees it’s not that hard.
.          “. . . even though they might be doing it just for college applications, I know it’s not hard to get 20 friends, but you still have to if you want to start a club, so it’s not just you starting your club and you’re the president and you meet with two people,” Mr. Bumgardner added later in the interview.
.          I’m not writing this article to hate on people starting clubs. It’s great that they’re “shooting for the stars.¨ I just looked at the list of clubs one day and thought, what a scam, also the Self-Defense club isn’t on here?
.          My sister’s the officer of a club that doesn’t exist. The self-defense club should have come about a couple years ago, but never did. Why? I’m not entirely sure, but I’m speculating that the president was already smart enough and decided they didn’t need it.