The dancing also gets me away from school and work at least one night a week which is great, because we all need a break from work at some point, and I get to meet lots of people and talk and have fun and everything. It's a great time. Competitions are a lot of fun, too. I found that out after my first one and decided that I enjoyed it enough to want to keep competing. So I have.
Comps are basically a weekend full of nothing but ballroom dancing.
The great thing about comps is getting to meet people from other schools that I normally wouldn't get to meet and dancing for the whole weekend. Sometimes they're good, sometimes not so much, but the information I pick up at them should be useful at some point, even if I can't use it right away. Usually there's even a little time for some general dancing in between events, so you can dance with all those new people from other schools that you've just met. Sometimes I wish there was more general dancing than there is, but after all, we do go there to compete, not to social dance. You have to work a little harder on your dancing if you want to do well and that helps you improve.