text: The second reason that students should participate in extracurricular activities is because students can make or spend time with friends. When you come to school you may want to make new friends and extracurricular activities are a great way to do that. If you are interested in an activity you can make friends with people that are also interested in that activity. Spending time with friends in an activity that you may not like is terrible, but spending time with friends and doing something that you like doing is wonderful.