This helps them to feel more comfortable around people who share the same interests. It also allows students to feel as if they are a part of something important- a feeling that they may not recieve from other important places. Students begin to understand that they need to balance their time so that they can partake in all of the activities they are involved in. They begin to understand that their extracurricular activity takes up some of their time, limiting their time in other areas. If they have less time to do other important things like school, they learn to do their homework and study more diligently.
Students can make new friends when they are involved in different organizations.
Having new friends opens up a new social category for a student. They can be faced with challenges different, or alike those that they learn in the classroom. This not only allows students to perform better in the classroom, it helps better their lives all together. The new things that a student can learn from an extracurricular activity also helps them perform better in the classroom, as well as away from school. Lessons learned from extracurricular activities can be valued as useful knowledge- these lessons can be used in many situations throughout the rest of their lives.