Word: extracurricular
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...along with a writing component, entitled “Theater of the Abject: The Powers of Horror in Sarah Kane’s ‘Blasted.’” Lloyd-Bollard, who is a Women, Gender, and Sexuality concentrator, stumbled upon the intersection of her extracurricular and academic interests, saying, “I got really interested in where the two [disciplines] meet and theories involving performativity of the self and of identities and of gender identity and sexuality and how you can explore these theories and concepts through performances in the theater...
...page listing of events—a lot of prefrosh said they felt overwhelmed by the opportunities available. “It can be a little hard to take it all in at once sometimes,” said Kristen J. DuPre of Long Island, N.Y. at the extracurricular fair on Saturday. But some students said they appreciated the sensory overload. “It was way better than Dartmouth’s [prefrosh weekend],” said Alexa I. Stern of Winchester, Mass. “There’s just so much to do—we?...
...specificity: Practicing civic engagement on a local, tangible level at Harvard and in Cambridge might make us much better citizens once we leave the so-called “Harvard Bubble.” If not, the valuable work that students do here might just be a phase, another extracurricular that alumni look back on with nostalgia, which they can no longer fit into the busy schedules of their private lives...
...City it was always something because every episode needed a theme, an arc—a storyline. My peers aren’t living in a television show, and yet we all, to some degree, make mountains out of the molehills of random hook-ups, upcoming papers, extracurricular conflicts, and the ever-present existential angst of the overactive mind...
...constitute a substantial portion Harvard’s academic offerings, like classical music, nor is it as prominent outside the classroom as pop or hip hop. Everett used to teach a course co-listed in the Departments of Music and African and African-American Studies that, like his extracurricular offerings, had strong ties to the jazz world outside Harvard. The class met twice a week for two hours and alternated Everett’s lessons with guest lectures. Everett cites pianist Teddy Wilson, who played with Benny Goodman, as an example of a performer he might bring to class...