Word: extracurricular
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Knowing that a tenured youth football coach won’t impress many recruiters, I’ve started to get desperate to add other activities to my resumé. Like many other Harvard undergraduates, my natural inclination in this situation was to try to found an extracurricular club. The only problem is, the last time I checked the number of clubs at Harvard, I got a figure so big it had to be expressed in scientific notation. In order to be original, I started a club called “Collectors of Potato Chips that are Shaped Like Things...
...felt like at Harvard, I was lacking in a fun extracurricular," she recalls...
...grown accustomed to this type of food. The difficulty of returning to Harvard surprises students, who expect—and are expected—to fit right back into the undergraduate lifestyle. Harvard is known for its rapid pace, as overachieving students fill their lives with extracurricular activities on top of the requisite schoolwork. “I had grown really comfortable with my life in Tanzania,” says Panarelli. “I definitely felt overwhelmed just by the speed and general busyness of everything and everyone here.” A Change in MindsetAlthough Datar...
...some women, Wellesley may be the best of both worlds. For five days a week, they are able to focus on their studies and extracurricular activities without worrying about awkward dining hall encounters with past hookups. When they leave campus, these women can pick and choose the elements of the Boston-area college social scene that most appeal to them. For the right kind of student, Wellesley can be a place where one is allowed to define womanhood on her own terms...
Briahna J. Gray ’07 is a history of science/ history of art and architecture joint concentrator in Currier House, who is seeking to fill the recent void in her extracurricular life formed after leaving her beloved a cappella group (shout out to the Harvard Lowkeys!) with yet another marginal art form—cartooning. When not attempting to figure out what her concentration actually means, you can find her thinking of ways to avoid leaving the Quad…at any cost. Check out Briahna’s cartoons on Wednesdays...