What if I'm not free every week?

That's okay! We are always looking for extra hands.

Volunteers like you are needed at every ESP event.

• Splash: This event, held the weekend before Thanksgiving, is one of the largest outreach programs at MIT. For registration alone, we depend on up to 100 MIT student volunteers. We also have a small security force (you get to wear a security shirt and carry around a walkie-talkie) and a help desk open all day (with food). Splash is a great time to volunteer because it only happens once a year; you'll get to see what ESP is all about without devoting too much time. Get your feet wet!

• HSSP: At registration, 200-500 students and their parents meet their teachers and choose their classes for the rest of the season. We need to make sure they have all the information about the program, complete all paperwork for students, and pay the program fee. Then, every day of classes, we have to set up a network of direction signs throughout campus and staff the HSSP office as a home base for both parents and students.

• Delve and SATPrep: Not as many people at MIT know about these programs, but they are just as important to our educational mission as HSSP and Splash. Contact esp-officers@mit.edu or visit a Tuesday 8 p.m. meeting to see how you can help out!

Have you ever been on campus during Splash? How about Saturday mornings during Spring HSSP? During those times, MIT's campus is flooded with hundreds of eager students and parents - and they need help. Help finding their way around this place, help getting to their class, help contacting the ESP office, and (most of all) help registering for their classes on the first day of the program.

In particular, Splash registration involves some 1800 students (plus parents) in one place. Our job is to get everyone on their way as quickly as possible, as well as be friendly, accommodating, and willing to get help for anyone (and to make sure the program directors' heads don't explode and get brain fragments all over our clothes). This is the best time all year for you to make a difference by volunteering once, only once, for a few hours.