Can I call my participation in university clubs (e.g., business, mathematics, art & drawing, sports, and robotics) "Community Volunteering" instead of "Extra-curricular activities"?

Here is a definition: Community Volunteering is the way in which a group of individuals from a community partake in social, charitable and environmental activities on a voluntary basis.

Is the Department of Mathematics, or a basketball club, a community? Are seminars, lectures, competitions, tournaments - organized by these university clubs - "social" activities?

No that would sound strange

Volunteering refers to volunteerism

community service is the key

service means service. You do good things without pay

You don't even hope to learn

Club activities is also volunteering, no? Students don't get paid for these ...

You gather together in common interest

You are pursuing a common interest

that is not volunteerism

They do it for the betterment of the community - may it be the department, the university, or the society ...

I wouldn't call it volunteering

Then again, some other sites may have better answers

Try workplace?

Okay, then what should we call this -> I remember organizing a blanket drive where university students bought new blankets to give away to the millions of rural households who experience deaths from the cold in the winter ... We collected these blankets in the cafeteria (2 weeks for the collection) - then delivered them to the far, far, rural regions of the country by trucks and vans ...

And this was organized by the Economics Club ...

@AIQ That thing was charitable in nature, so yes

It was community service for sure

Okay so I guess then it depends on the activities ...

I would say so

Word of the day: derecho

Ah thank you!

@CowperKettle Still don't know what that is. I can tell from the map I have never had more than one derecho a year

Sounds like an Italian dish

Hi there.

I'm looking for a word meaning unright or make wrong any suggestion?

@Ehsan88 Would something like "sabotage [an operation/a plan]" work?

Alternatively, "foul up" or "mess up"

Depends on what is being "made wrong".

@Lambie I think we could use your expertise with this

Little help please?

I am having a very difficult time communicating with the new user. If we just let them be, I think they will just fade away. I don't want to turn away a new user. Never. So your much esteemed knowledge in Portuguese could come to the rescue.

@EddieKal Are you sure it's Portuguese? Coz I'd be glad to explain the situation to her.

@Lambie Not entirely sure. I thought either Spanish or Portuguese. But having seen you communicate with speakers of them I know if OP can write in detail what they are asking you will be able to help them.

@EddieKal Sure, I'd be glad too, once I know which.

@Lambie Seems OP's not interested in writing in another language. There doesn't seem to be anything else we could do to help them. Hope they will get the answer they are looking for. Thank you Lambie!

@EddieKal I think we should vote to close because it is basically incomprehensible nonsense. So one could be kind and just correct the sentence but frankly I am not very well disposed towards people who do this/that.

@Lambie It is already closed, I believe

Echoing this question here

Read the other messages below it if you're interested in my half-baked opinion so far

Bumped into this in the Lit chatroom