Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact is Harvard’s athletes are exceptional people like everyone else here. Perhaps more exceptional, given the pressure on their study time created by their extracurricular activities. Even with four-plus hours a day dedicated to practice, they graduate, get employed and contribute to their communities, countries, and Harvard financially, and in a plethora of other immeasurable ways. We’re also cooler...
...surveys show that we do well in the areas of residential and extracurricular life, and that we could do better in the areas of social life and academic experience,” Gross said today. “This has informed my priorities...
...like under a Yale-style housing system? Freshmen would receive their House affiliations along with their rooming assignments over the summer. Upon their arrival at Harvard, they would be welcomed into their Houses, in whose activities they would participate throughout the year. Instead of waiting to meet upperclassmen through extracurricular activities and classes, freshmen would find communities of their elders in which they would immediately be eligible to participate...
...form itself is quite simple—it asks students to list their academic and extracurricular interests, music tastes, and the number of roommates they prefer. It also requests that students list—on a scale from one to five—how neat and how quiet they want their rooms to be. The form also requires students to choose one of three options for the times they go to bed and wake up. On the back, the form asks students to write an essay describing themselves and what they want in a roommate...
After looking at students’ preferences for rooming-group size, ADF’s look for is compatibility. “We try to find people who have at least one thing in common with academic interests, extracurricular, personal descriptions,” Nye Barth said. She said she also takes into account things like “messiness and hours, though those change dramatically when [students] get here...