| Your Education Doesn’t Stop At The Classroom | | | | Additionally, getting involved in college activities will |
| Door | | | | make you a better student in your coursework. How, |
| The primary reason people go to college is to | | | | you may wonder, since college activities drain hours |
| continue their educations, right? But what some | | | | away from the time you could be studying, could this |
| students don’t realize is that opportunities to | | | | possibly be true? It’s true in at least two ways. |
| learn don’t shut off after the class day is | | | | First, if you are committed to a college activity, you |
| through. Whether you’re on a sports team, in a | | | | will force yourself to be organized about getting your |
| dance troupe, part of Amnesty International, or a | | | | course assignments done. The time management |
| representative in your student government, any | | | | that taking classes and doing college activities |
| college activity you pursue will offer you a lot to | | | | requires will force you to focus more intently to get |
| learn. By pursuing college activities outside of your | | | | the work done more efficiently so that you can go |
| curriculum, you will learn a lot about the activity itself, | | | | do your college activity. Secondly, taking a break |
| and more importantly, a lot about yourself. For | | | | from studying by doing something else will make you |
| example, if you love student government, that’s | | | | more effective in your course work because when |
| a sign that perhaps you should really run for office | | | | you go to do your activity, you are giving yourself a |
| one day. And if you hate it, that’s important | | | | total break from calculus or Shakespeare, so when |
| information to have before you begin a campaign in | | | | you go back, you’ll be refreshed. Doing a college |
| the real world and realize it’s a big mistake. You | | | | activity is better for your brain than taking a break |
| will also learn how to work and interact with other | | | | by watching TV for example, because though |
| people outside the classroom setting. This skill is a | | | | you’ll be away from your work while you’re |
| very important one to have: once you graduate from | | | | watching One Life to Live, you will probably not get it |
| college, you will need to work with other people to | | | | out of your mind that you have to get back to |
| some extent regardless of what you end up doing, | | | | Hamlet. Because a college activity will fully engage |
| and all of that work will take place outside of the | | | | your brain, you get a better break from Hamlet, and |
| classroom. | | | | when you sit back down with him, you’ll read |
| Taking A Break From Studying Makes You More | | | | him with fresh and not TV-glazed eyes. |
| Effective And Efficient In Your Coursework | | | | |