Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Harvard is as much—if not more—a culprit as any other institution, its students so dedicated to extracurricular activities and internships that the prospect of departing Harvard for a precious semester is more frightening than thrilling. Close friends of mine asked me quite seriously if going abroad would be worth “missing out on” a semester at Harvard. Several others asked me what harm would be done to my “leadership positions” if I skipped town for seven months. There is genuine fear of studying abroad...
...multitude of student groups at Harvard allows every individual to find his cause and promote it, but rarely causes collaboration with other extracurricular associations. RSS feeds and blogs customize information, leaving our generation perhaps better informed than any other previous ones, but informed selectively and self-centeredly. Facebook lets you add “causes” to your profile and find friends based on common interests and charities. But will the “1,000,000 strong for Barack” actually vote for him? Will thousands of blog readers board a bus in real life and stand...
...activity between 3 and 6 p.m. on schooldays. Studies show that students who spend no time in after-school programs are almost 50% more likely to have used drugs and 37% more likely to become teen parents than students who spend one to four hours a week in an extracurricular activity. The Corps members would also focus on curbing America's dropout epidemic. Right now, 50% of the dropouts come from 15% of the high schools in the U.S., most of them located in high-poverty city neighborhoods and throughout the South. The Education Corps would focus on those troubled...
...extracurricular-sponsored happy hours and room parties that define my social experience on campus will eventually evolve into happy hours (at actual bars!) and mixers not unlike the one I attended last Monday. The difference between this summer and two years from now, after I graduate from college, is that what is a game to me now, an exercise in being "grown up," will very likely be my reality during my unattached and professional twenties...
...prepared meals—will eventually be replaced with the life I'm variously experiencing this summer. At some point, I won't meet new people in the dining hall or at a Crimson party, but at a conference happy hour or young alumni event. The classes and extracurricular activities that help define my identity on campus will be replaced with an office title and whatever I can squeeze in on my weekends or after-work hours. Even my self-conception will need reworking, as I will have to decide whether to introduce myself as coming from the rural area...