Word: extracurricular
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...Harvard, Resendes has kept himself busy away from O’Donnell Field. Among his extracurricular commitments is his direction of the Committee on Deaf Awareness (CODA), a student group under the Phillips Brooks House Association’s (PBHA) umbrella of service programs. Two weeks ago, Resendes and CODA organized Deaf Awareness Week, which included various speakers and campus events...
...voluntarily choose early retirement. During the six years since her post was created, Kidd has overseen the openings of the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub and the Harvard College Women’s Center, and has worked to increase opportunities and services for students involved in extracurricular activities. “I think having an Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities is a very big accomplishment for a school that had previously not given much focus to student life,” Kidd said. Campus Life Fellow Jason B. McCoy ’08 said that Kidd...
...blow to our vision of calendar reform, we hope that, going forward, the College makes strides to increase the opportunities available to students. The financial recession may have made January coursework too expensive for the College, but a number of less costly initiatives can help students pursue meaningful extracurricular, athletic, academic, or career-related activities during these few weeks...
...April Visiting Program” for admitted students. With the Admissions Office working 24 hours a day to accommodate its slew of new visitors, the approximately 1100 “pre-frosh” in attendance had the opportunity to attend organized events ranging from academic and extracurricular orientations to various social receptions and parties. “There are like 1000 things to do,” said Gary D. Carlson, an incoming freshman from New Jersey. “It’s hard to decide what to do and so I have ended up doing nothing...
...also worth questioning the reason why so many students feel compelled to use neuroenhancing drugs. At Harvard, there is pressure to take a rigorous courseload whose time constraints are then compounded by extracurricular activities, jobs, social obligations, and more. That so many students at Harvard—and at other universities—feel the need to use study drugs to help fit everything into their day is quite telling. Perhaps students should not take on so many obligations if doing so means that they must supplement their natural abilities with drugs...