Word: extracurricular
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...time when sports and other extracurricular activities are being cut from schools throughout the U.S., solely getting rid of soda and other sugar-filled drinks is a Band-Aid for a bigger problem. Although I understand how those drinks help contribute to the problems of obesity and Type 2 diabetes faced by our youth, we must not forget that physical education and sports programs, which also prevent obesity and diabetes, are being trimmed from inner-city-school budgets every year. I commend the Clinton Foundation for its efforts, but I suggest that its campaign be extended to highlight the importance...
...have no time. I am so busy,'" she says. "But we make a lot of choices, and we have a lot more discretion than we give ourselves credit for," she says. Parents may be undervaluing themselves when they conclude that sending kids off to every conceivable extracurricular activity is a better use of time than an hour spent around a table, just talking...
...cultural club for Germanophiles. But Leder says he focused his time on academics. “My major ‘extracurricular’ activity was my lab thesis,” he says. “As I had science courses with labs, that left little time for extracurricular activities,” he adds, adding that organic chemistry was his favorite class. Placed in Lowell House after his freshman year, Leder says that the dormitory, known at the time as “a grind house” was for diligent undergrads. “I liked...
...advice, Valentine took classes in several disciplines. “I dabbled in this and I dabbled in that,” Valentine says, concluding that she only enjoyed her small writing and literature seminars.While a member of the Radcliffe Choral Society her freshman year, Valentine says her extracurricular involvement was limited.“I was trying to figure out the things you try to figure out at that age—who I was in my family, where I wanted to live, being with men at the first time…many, many things...
...spring, two-thirds of the Freshman Class in a poll again claimed that they were unable to study in their rooms after 10 p.m.,” the editorial reads. “Because the afternoons and early evenings of many freshmen are taken by jobs, physical training, and extracurricular activities, the need for better study conditions is acutely obvious...