Word: extracurricular
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Harvard students might consider themselves experts at juggling schoolwork and extracurricular commitments...
...Crimson about her experience. Despite being diagnosed last year with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare blood disorder involving low platelet counts, Alford refused to take time off from school. Instead, she added weekly chemotherapy infusions to her schedule of thesis writing, job hunting, and extracurricular commitments. She is now in remission. Alford’s cherishes her ability to spur change and influence her peers. “I’m a person who’s always speaking out, always giving my honest opinion—which sometimes gets me into trouble,” Alford says...
...continued to pursue his two passions as the president of the Dunster House Opera Society and a starter for the Harvard football team this year. “He has never thought twice about being himself,” says his mother. Although this English concentrator’s extracurricular activities may seem completely disparate, Van Niel points out that both football and opera are “performance venues.” Coach Murphy agrees. “Whether you’re on the football field or the stage, you have to be very prepared, very focused...
...students are pretty distracted right now in this final week of classes. Harvard is buzzing with holiday parties, extracurricular transfers of power, and epidemic influenza. With all this on-campus excitement, and the promise of home looming, who can think about school right now? There is so much on our minds right now that it would be all too easy to completely forget about that last midterm. Hopefully our TFs also share in our seasonal charity and goodwill, but I wouldn’t count on it. This is why Harvard’s idiosyncratic calendar is a good thing...
...everyone went through that. All the people around you—from that girl in section who tries to relate everything to Schopenhauer to those guys in your entryway who never leave their room—managed the bizarre alchemy of the Harvard application and transformed a plethora of extracurricular and curricular achievements and one or two “outstanding” essays into an acceptance letter.Yet once you get to Harvard, this sequence has another name: The Comp. Apparently, those who make it into Harvard find the process of writing extensive applications, undergoing interviews, and waiting for long...