I was really reluctant to do NCS and when it came to the day before it started, I just couldn't be bothered to spend 3 weeks and another 4 weekends doing jack all. But the 'UCAS' points thing reeled me in and it turned out I did it and guess what...
I couldn't have been more right. The first week was getting to know people and doing fun activities. I have got to admit, this was actually pretty good. I had quite a lot of people I knew so when it got awkward, I just hung around with my friends. But as week 2 and 3 came, it became a bloody chore (hint to the person who said it's not ^^). It seemed like the NCS people advertising it built it up to get better as the weeks wore on but it didn't. The four weekends afterwards consisted of my group walking around the town like bellends doing stupid things that I didn't even want to do. And I tried to enjoy it but it was really dumb. I felt like while this was going on I could be going out with friends, chillin at home, sleeping in and stuff. It just went on for way too long.
And the worst part about all of this is that NCS does not give you UCAS points like they said it would. So you are much better off doing D of E and you would learn a lot more too. Some good points about NCS were that I met new people who I still talk to, we went to Wales and my group helped out elderly people which were all good experiences.