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Many people in Korea believe that study is much more important than sports, thus think that universities should spend more money on libraries rather than on sports. However, in my opinion, universities should invest more money on sports as much as they do on libraries. This is because sports activities are great opportunities to build social network and to become healthy.
To begin with, students can interact with each other and develop social network, which can be very useful in many different ways. When doing the sports, students meet many different people and sometimes have to cooperate as a partner or to play as a rival. Through regular sports meeting, students can naturally build up friendship and can create wide social network. For example, when my father was a university student, he was on a basketball team and got in touch with his foreign friend, John, for the first time. By playing basketball, they often played as a team and became a very close friend. My father’s social network with John helped him later on when he needed help in his English writing and could develop his English ability thanks to the network that he built through sports activities.
On top of that, playing sports is the best chance to be healthy both physically and mentally. University students have a lot of work to do including their homework, as well as part-time job and extracurricular activities. Also, when doing such work, they often get a lot of stress, so they need an outlet for it. Playing sports is the best solution for these problems since exercise makes good physical strength and relieves stress very much. By playing sports in the university, students would be able to become healthy both in body and in mind, which helps them possible to overcome their overwhelming workload. For instance, my brother could study hard without getting a lot of stress thanks to university’s swimming activity. His physical strength greatly improved, which made him possible to stay up all night for study without getting tired. Also, he could solve the stress that he got during the time he swam.
To sum up, university students can build up social network which would help them in a lot of aspects and become healthy both in body and in mind when they have chance to play sports in the university. In this regard, I believe that universities should provide a lot of sports activities and thus believe that they need to spend as much money on sports as they do on libraries. |