Word: extra-curricular
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...speak of extra-curricular non-proliferation. There's no sense denying it. Harvard has far too many extracurricular activities, publications, musical groups and public service organizations. Everyone and his roommate is a social chair, an associate editor or a "manager" of one stripe or another. Though there is no real harm in the proliferation of titles per se, the proliferation of so many organizations has left virtually every organization understaffed, and talent has been spread thinner than vegemite on a piece of melba toast...
...only way to restore sanity, stability and quality to Harvard extracurricular life is the same way diplomats now want to insure world peace: non-proliferation agreements. Thus I suggest that every undergraduate be forced to sign, along with her "no-hazing" disclaimer, the Extra-Curricular Non-Proliferation Treaty...
Preamble: Whereas there are entirely too many extra-curricular activities at Harvard...
...into medicine. I am going to have a career other than ballet. I am going to have multiple careers [laughs]. That's hard too, because a lot of kids who are bio. concentrators or premed are planning their summers [according to their academic goals]. But my summers and my extra-curricular time are so completely different from what I do at school that it's really hard for me to devote extra time to school when I devote all my extra time to ballet...
...advocates of the "service-first" philosophy argue that the council is just another extra-curricular, that it has a limited mandate and should not pretend otherwise...