Colleges that Focus on Schoolwork

juillet
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:38:34 +0000

Well, there is a reason for that other than fun. In all honesty, students who spend 100% of their time doing coursework and no ECs don’t get a rounded college experience that turns them into a good worker and citizen. There are a lot of things you can learn from extracurricular activities - not just things like sports, but clubs like Model UN, university senate, a social society for your field like National Society of Black Engineers, or a service organization like Alpha Phi Omega. Employers do like to see people who have some kind of experience outside of the classroom - otherwise, how do you learn to work with people and some of those soft skills that aren’t acquired through academics?

Studying is often something to just get through. I don’t know many people who genuinely enjoy studying. And what does it matter if ECs are just as important as schoolwork, as long as people are getting their work done and achieving?