Word: extracurricular
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...gets touted at information sessions for those eager to make a difference beyond Harvard’s ivy-covered gates. And with Harvard’s many options, students can easily find a service opportunity that’s right for them among the many colored posters that populate extracurricular fairs and Phillip Brooks House Association (PBHA) open houses...
...years carry at Harvard, where many students feel pressure to finish college and enter the job market, a culture encouraging gap years is healthy. Gap years, particularly those that involve international travel, enable students to gain global perspectives that both enrich and inform their subsequent personal, academic, and extracurricular endeavors. For many matriculating students, a year spent in non-academic pursuits offers much needed respite from the stresses and rigors of high school. By providing constructive opportunities to relax and reflect, gap years prepare students for a more meaningful and engaged university experience. Currently, bridge years are predominately enjoyed...
...students may be learning about poker, undergraduates should probably stick to playing for Crimson cash—though Nesson asked Wan to start a Harvard College chapter of GPSTS, the Student Activities Office is doing its best to party-grant this movement, unwilling to recognize poker as a legitimate extracurricular. Ever maintaining the party line, the economics concentrator rushes to the defense of poker, saying “I do think that poker has a lot to do with life, and it teaches you a lot about money management.” Though he doesn’t want...
...great thing about sororities at Harvard is that they don’t have to be your one and only extracurricular,” said former Theta president Alison R. Pipitone ’08. “I have friends who go to school in the South and they don’t have time for anything else because they always have to be in their sorority...
Within Harvard’s gates, sororities may seem like fish out of water, but in essence they have the social networking elements that sustain many groups on campus, though Hanger refers to this as simply a perk of the organizations. “It’s the extracurricular that I do because it makes me happy and I enjoy it so much,” she says of Theta. “I don’t do it because it’s going to help me with my professional life. It will, but that?...