Some students in college, especially freshmen, feel the need to be a part of something. They want to belong somewhere they feel at 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 each individual person. This can make the college experience worthwhile. A college without these extracurricular activities would become a boring place, unable to satisfy its students. Students need outlets from school, and if a school offers nothing for this, they are depriving their students of the college experience. Graeme Wood writes in his article “Is College Doomed”: “We have few clues that the process of dismantling the university removes something essential to what has made America's best colleges the greatest in the world.” (Wood 509) This college has taken away all extracurricular activities and thinks it 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 are an important part of college and are second to
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