Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard students are morning people. It would be silly to expect 6,000 people to keep the same hours under any circumstances, short of the army; throw in different academic schedules, different extracurricular activities and different study habits, and you have a diversity of sleep cycles that would make the admissions office proud. At 2:30 a.m. on any weeknight, there are Harvard students in the University Lutheran Church, overseeing the homeless shelter, at The Crimson putting the finishing touches on the next day's paper, in the Grays basement staffing Room 13, in the Science Center computer labs perfecting...
Fitzsimmons said he acknowledges that not all cultures value "non-academic credentials" such as extracurricular activities. The admissions committee has to take into account the differences in how international students present themselves compared to American students, Fitzsimmons said...
...applaud OCS officials' recognizing that students have classes and extracurricular commitments in the afternoons and often cannot make it to the building before the reading room closes at 4:30 p.m. The extra hours may also add a modicum of calm to the reading room during frenzied afternoons, because students will realize that they can come back after dinner to look for more information. And anything that would make the atmosphere less tense in the room where students decide their futures is a positive change. It is about time the College realized that students operate on a much later schedule...
...sections and hold extracurricular sessions to teach them how to compute," he says. "Those are the most important students to catch--those who might be shy about computing itself...
Ellison lists the IOP and the College Democrats as two extracurricular organizations she plans to join...