Everybody is always encouraging students to GET INVOLVED in school. To participate in those extracurricular activities or sports teams. Well, take it from someone with first-hand experience, it's a bunch of bull-shit! Everyday after school, I have to stay for some stupid meeting, at which we do nothing and everybody just fools around. What's the point of wasting my time after school if we're not going to get anything done? I can go HOME and do nothing. don't make me stay after school! And I'm not even involved in stuff with my friends, but with people I HATE! Then after the meeting where we get nothing done, I have to find a way home. When I GET home, it's already 5:00pm! If you get involved in something, you have to make a commitment, even if you don't like it. And then if you miss one meeting, people get mad at you because you're not "keeping your commitments". I guess if you LIKE what you do, if it's some kind of sport you enjoy, it's not so bad. But if it's something you HATE, then it's just pure torture. So if you like staying after school every day, coming home at 5:00pm, and wasting your time, then please, by all means, get involved in your school!