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Essay / The Importance of Extracurricular Activities - 941
Some college students, mostly first-years, feel like they need to be a part of something. They want to belong somewhere that feels like home because college is such a new experience. The easiest way to belong somewhere is to join a club or team that shares the same values and passions as everyone else. This can make the college experience interesting. A college without these extracurricular activities would become a boring place, which would not meet the needs of its students. Students need opportunities at school, and if a school doesn't provide that, it's depriving its students of the college experience. Graeme Wood writes in his article "Is College Doomed": "We don't really know whether the process of dismantling the university is removing something essential to what has made America's best colleges the best in the world." (Wood 509) This college has cut all extracurricular activities and he thinks he will be successful. They have no proof that it works. There is no way to keep students engaged in college without extracurricular activities. Extracurricular activities make up a large part of college and come in second.