Word: extracurricular
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...program is intended to match freshmen with an upperclassman for advising on academic, extracurricular, and residential matters. Students were initially upset when the new advising system was first introduced last spring as a replacement to the popular prefect program...
Under the new system, peer advisers will work with about 10 freshmen who share a common academic or extracurricular interest with their adviser...
...serious. Because the truth is, you won’t read them. You probably won’t even read 25 to 30 percent of the gigantic textbooks and coursepacks you buy, especially for social science courses. Many students are busy with too many extracurricular and social commitments to tackle the behemoth reading lists professors compile. They find that they can usually get by in class with a few comments, which need not necessarily be based on the readings...
...With getting your feet planted on firm academic ground no longer a pressing necessity, take this time to sink deeper into an extracurricular. Branch out and try something new—you made it through the first semester okay...
...basically, how we define them in the first place. During the academic year, these questions are easier to answer than a Magic of Numbers problem set. The “optimal” use of our time is, for the most part, defined for us: attend class, join an extracurricular, party on the weekend.But the traditional barometers of achievement—paramountly, a flawless ‘A’ on your transcript—are absent over the summer, and we are left to define success for ourselves. Consequently, we search for something unique and fantastic, an experience that...