Full-time university students should do other activities instead of spending most of their time studying. Do you agree or disagree?

The world, today, has undoubtedly turned into a highly competent one, where, in order to secure a bright career, one has to learn specific skills, and graduate from a university or a college.  To materialize this, a number of subjects have to be learnt, following a hectic curriculum. Meanwhile, it is also important for full-time university students to engage in activities such as community works and part-time jobs, rather than being completely immersed in acquiring theoretical knowledge.

For a start, university students, often having to focus on a wide range of subjects, hardly find time to equip themselves with a number of soft skills which are highly essential both in life and career. While participating in activities such as community works, they tend to have a platform for exposure with the outer world, examples for which are community welfare projects and household surveys by graduates in social work. In such instances, they would develop a set of skills including communication skills and the sense of team spirit; eventually, these youngsters are likely to become acquainted with the world where they have to apply the theories that they learned in textbooks.

Likewise, students giving too much emphasis only on academic subjects are mostly observed to become introvert in nature, who give prominent importance to scoring more marks. This would probably put them under tremendous pressure.  As such, participation in extra-curricular activities and other recreations seems to help them vent their stress as well as ease the learning process, thus rendering it more interesting.

In brief, although most of the university courses extensively focus on academic aspects trivializing others, engaging in extra-curricular activities appears to be of utmost importance which should be followed rather than spending most time on studies.