Volunteerism course making me lose my mind!
I just created this account to rant/ask for advice here. I really don't know what to do.
I had to take volunteerism course for my current semester. At first I thought it's going to be very easy since I already do community service for my scholarship annual requirement which is 20 hours per year by the way.
But in this course, span of 14 weeks, first 6 weeks we have to write and submit proposal. Then for about 9 weeks on the actual volunteerism for 30 hours. Even that is okay, but they need 5 distinct activities and 1 theme. The activities should be different from each other and have huge impact.
I rely on public transport/grab. I first joined in groups but none of them actually took the initiative to look for themes and activities. I have about a week to make a proposal and submit. The proposal has to have the activities and themes I'm going to do.
Since the course participants are a lot, we are separated by groups each with assigned coordinators. Some coordinators are not strict so the students can cheat, or just include some pictures and get an A. But my coordinator is different story. I have now sent him 3 different projects with different activites, for everything he said, "I cannot see 5 activities, so I won't give marks"
I have thought of projects that I could do within my budget and time, but everything seem to be not enough for him. This has been impacting me mentally because I'm a scholarship student, I cannot get lower grade in this course and repeat this for next semester.
And this totally made me to not want to volunteer. Volunteerism should be done against ones own goodwill. If the rules are this rigid with short amount of time, how to even enjoy or actually want to do it?!
Sorry for the rant. I feel like spiraling. I have contacted head of the course to at least change my group, but they are not willing to.