Remember this familiar scene: You're at a wedding or formal dance, strategically seated at your corner table or mingling near the dessert trays and punch bowl.

Suddenly, a friend or relative grabs your hand to pull you on to the dance floor, begging, "C'mon, let's dance." You dig your heels into the floor as he or she pulls you against your will into the middle of the dancing mass.

You barely know your left foot from your right, let alone the waltz from the tango.

It's a common problem for many young people - but help is on the way. There's a club for you on campus that could be your saving grace.

The MSU Ballroom Dance Club is a group of lively folk whose mission it is to do nothing but get their groove on every Sunday.

"We give people some skills to be awesome on the dance floor," said club president and biochemistry/biotechnology junior Travis Reed. "Over the semester we all become really close - we figure we'll all look silly together and learn more."

From merengue to cha-cha, they learn them all. Each week, the group brings in a new instructor to teach a different dance. Basic steps are taught one week, while advanced steps of the dance are taught the following Sunday. The club draws in 50 to 100 dance students a week.

English sophomore Nicole Monta wore her dancing shoes Sunday so she could learn to rhumba.

"Learning to dance is one of those things that are fun, but you may never get around to doing," Monta said. "But in school, it's here, so why not?"

Along with 2002 MSU alumna Amy Spray, Monta has attended the dance classes since last year and has learned to salsa, cha-cha, waltz and swing.

"I practice without a partner a lot," she said. "I dance around in my living room by myself. It's a skill that's gonna last me a very long time - I'll look cool at weddings, at least."

Sunday's rhumba lesson began with a basic step taught by instructor John McAllister. Calling out the moves to a beat, he directed students' feet for the first steps and turns of the dance. "Left, together, left, back