Word: extracurricular
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Social life. Harvard has not built a "real" student center, the final clubs remain the site of much of the party action and the presence of fraternities and sororities has slowly begun to expand. Still, the growth of extracurricular organizations and the post-randomization era of house life has meant a wider array of weekend offerings. The decision by many final clubs to shut their doors to non-members also bodes well for the further democratization of Harvard's social scene. Verdict: Better to even...
Hoping for a cheat sheet, I looked to the Yearbook, surely the ultimate Cliffs Notes of one's college experience. But there, each senior's picture is accompanied by a name, permanent address, academic concentration, and a list of extracurricular activities, nothing more. Apparently someone decided 50 years ago that what best sums up our college experience is whether or not we participated in intramural sports. But who could possibly care about whether we rowed House crew? Instead, shouldn't it say, to be accurate, "Discovered that her time is hers, and she should never, ever, defer life"? Or perhaps...
Students work term-time and summer jobs to help pay for their tuition. Sometimes the obligation to make money for tuition prevents a student from taking a lower-paid, more educational internship or participating in a time-consuming extracurricular. Why couldn't this increase in federal aid help to decrease some of students' expected contribution--turning the focus of their days at Harvard toward education instead of finance...
...Fellowship winners are chosen on the basis of their scholastic performance, business leadership potential, extracurricular and volunteer activities, and recommendations from the college dean and other faculty," Jill Jones, an assistant secretary of the Foundation's board of directors said in a press release...
This may mean that you'll have less time to participate in extracurricular activities, or it may mean--as is the case with most Stanford first-years--that you'll just have to clean up your act. Unfortunately, one of the diagnostic signs of a Stanford students is that we're overloaded and over-committed...