Word: extracurricular
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...benefit that these groups could have on students will not only be the generation of a sense of community among peers, but more importantly, the formation of a moral identity for each student. With too many students focusing on the bottom line, GPAs, test scores, job offers, and extracurricular activities, adding a broader perspective of why students attend college or earn a degree will only make them appreciate more the position in which they find themselves. A journey with a destination is much easier to navigate than one without, and with this program in place students will be ushered along...
...have much that Harvard Houses lack—to begin, a truly tight-knit community. Each has its own social spaces, including a bar, in addition to a social calendar that features a regular flow of themed parties and formal dinners. Moreover, each College boasts dozens of extracurricular societies. While Cambridge undergraduates are as busy with extracurriculars as anyone at Harvard, what seems radically different here is the sense of importance that students attribute to their non-academic pursuits. There is, perhaps, less at stake. Extracurriculars are treated as leisurely activities, a fact that is reflected in the at times...
...that the size of the football team, its intense nature of commitment, and its broad appeal to fans could merit special treatment (or in this case, exclusion), these arguments are weak and unsustainable. Surely, the commitment required to play on an athletic team far outweighs that of most other extracurricular activities, but to place a sort of achievement cap on the football team alone is unfair. Plenty of Harvard students can vouch for the fact that their extracurricular obligations place a greater burden on their studies—but no one is telling a Phillips Brooks House Association volunteer...
...artificial racial integration in schools, however, must be designed with the utmost caution. Past attempts at busing and redistricting have not only led to social unrest, but also to a lowered quality of education for the students involved. Education consists of far more than mere classroom experiences. Community integration, extracurricular activities, and after school programs all weave together the fabric of a student’s educational experience, and programs aimed at integration must be careful not to drastically disrupt these elements of a child’s schooling. Moreover, integration programs should pay special attention to the abundance...
...time needed for this integration often becomes a rare luxury for students at Harvard, where life can feel like a never-ending cycle of problem sets, response papers, and incessant comp processes. The lower the time commitment, the more appealing extracurricular activities can be—especially in the case of social service...