Will extracurricular activities help me meet new people?
Getting involved in extracurricular activities is the most important thing to do when in school. It really is the most important suggestion and extracurricular activities I think are as important as academics. I tell parents, especially parents who are usually like academic advocates and also students, that its as important as going to class; to have one organization, or one activity to attend. Extracurricular activities is something that you can do to connect with people, because what happens is so many times students get to this new world, and they are surrounded by so many unfamiliar people. It's hard to meet new people and they find they don't have a lot of options in terms of friends, so they just make friends with the people around them and those aren't always the people doing the things that they necessarily want to do, and people they want to be associated with, but if you can create options, a world where you have options. This is what extracurricular activities are; things that create options. You could have different groups of friends so that when one group of friends is doing something you don't want to do you could be like I'm not interested' You then always have those other options and extracurricular activities are a doorway to help you to create a world that's filled with endless options
