Why is it important to get involved in extracurricular activities during college?
Extracurricular activities are important to your education because they help you apply what you’ve learned in the classroom, the abstract theories and the philosophies that you’ve learned, to a real-world example. A student government officer, like a treasurer or a leader of a club, learns some very important lessons about political science, about accounting, and about how to communicate with people. Those are all things that you read about in class, but they’re not necessarily things that you get a chance to practice. The other thing that’s really important about being involved in extracurricular is, after you graduate, you’ve gained a lot of practical experience on the job, or at least experience with other people, interacting and creating programs and budgets, and promoting your ideas. It’s important to consider that there are a lot of people who graduate from college every year. Many of them will have majored in the same thing you did. They will have got the same grades that you di
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