Word: extracurricular
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...placed in Houses based on their first-year entryways—would prove damaging to the experience of Harvard students, and particularly minority students, for a number of reasons. Many Harvard students select their blocking groups and roommates based on relationships they have formed through some sort of extracurricular activity. The shared interests of these rooming groups nurture individuals and provide for their personal development, easing the mental stress of college life. To force students to live with whomever was randomly assigned to their first-year residence is to make the paternalistic assumption that the College can best determine one?...
...addition, the idea of assigning incoming first-years to a House before they arrive assumes that the House advising system is one that is best for all students. It has been the experience of many minority students that they are more comfortable seeking advising outside of the House, through extracurricular groups and other trustworthy people that they find through social networks or academic settings. Perhaps all student interests would best be served by a more centralized advising program operated by an independent body within the College that assigns advisers based on interests, instead of House affiliation...
...occupying your thoughts? Summer, perhaps? Spending time with soon to be departing friends? Your concentration choice at Harvard? Right—not so much. In fact, choosing a concentration does not really become a salient reality until far later—after Freshman Week, after the early barrage of extracurricular opportunities, after shopping period, after Winter break, after finals and, for many, after the concentration deadline itself. That many first-years dismissively fill out their plans of study knowing that they will need at least the summer to mull it over is a sign of errant timing. Choosing a concentration...
...eating disorders in its students, but many students bring eating disorders or the tendency toward them to this campus. I do think that this college is populated by highly talented and often competitive students whose desire to excel in the classroom, on the athletic field, and in extracurricular activities is often paralleled by a similar commitment to ‘improve’ their bodies.” Olivardia agrees, adding that it is “more likely to see [eating disorders] in your upper tier-schools...
...eating disorders in its students, but many students bring eating disorders or the tendency toward them to this campus. I do think that this college is populated by highly talented and often competitive students whose desire to excel in the classroom, on the athletic field, and in extracurricular activities is often paralleled by a similar commitment to ‘improve’ their bodies.” Olivardia agrees, adding that it is “more likely to see [eating disorders] in your upper tier-schools...