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In the movie “The Blind Side,” Michael Oher is spotted as a big football star, even though his grades are not the best. Getting a tutor, making grades improve, and making a choice of a football scholarship, extra curricular activities have a big effect on students improving themselves. Even though students love extra curricular activities, they can not only harm, but help them at the same time when it comes to improving themselves. Extra curricular activities can harm/help students by affecting college picks, and building personalities/relationships.
Extra curricular activities can help or harm students by college picks, which has to do a lot with grades. For example, a senior-football quarterback has a chance to go D1 at Texas A&M , Texas Tech, or even at Baylor. When the coaches sit down to look at his grades over the years, they see that he doesn’t have very good grades, and his work wasn’t complete due to extra curricular activities and getting home late. For many of us, extracurricular activities can harm us, but also in some cases, help. In addition, when a high school senior enters into a university, they don’t usually want people who sit around and do nothing, because they look for involved teens. Being a cheerleader, in the band, and sports, will look very well on a college application for a university. Too often, people get too lazy and just want to go to school and just come home. In our lives, whether it’s a 6’1″ high school football player who has bad grades, or a senior that does nothing, extra curricular activities can help, but definitely harm students in improving themselves by moving onto the next level.
Not only college picks, but extra curricular activities can help/harm student from building personalities/relationships. For example, the Ladyneck Volleyball Program builds so many relationships, the volleyball girls make so many friendships and get close to one another. Just because we have practice all the time, get mad at the game, and have hard days, we are always there for each other and really care for each other, we become “soul-sisters.” In addition, personalities can be created by the people associated with in the extra curricular activities which someone is participating. In football, volleyball, cheer, baseball, golf, etc., people will start to act like the people they are around all the time, because of attitudes and even non-studying. I was always told by my mother, “You become like the people you associate with.” Extra curricular activities can help students when it comes to building relationships/personalities.
Michael Oher becomes a football player at Ole Miss, and doesn’t let his grades affect him, he does everything. Even though he didn’t really like football at the beginning, he finds a way to love it. Extra curricular activities can help/harm students in improving themselves by affecting their college picks, and building personalities/relationships with many different groups of people.