Word: extracurricular
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...tired with all the sports and extracurricular activities. Your hormones are just starting to kick in, and you yell at your parents, teachers and friends about things like homework, picking up your room or just frustration,, so they're thinking, "Who is this crazy person...
Many, like Forbess, attend the Summer School so that they can devote the entirety of their days to one, sometimes two, difficult courses that, if taken during term-time, would eat away large chunks of their time, stunting their academic, extracurricular, and social lives (not to mention sleep schedules...
...waning spirit of community. Where that occurs, vandalism is rare. Nathan Goldman, chairman of the sociology department at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, reports that a school deeply involved in its neighborhood-by holding night programs for parents, for instance, or by opening its doors to extracurricular community functions-invariably deters the vandal. Somehow, the behavioral scientists feel, man must discover how to apply this lesson on a broader scale. The vandal's deed is his declaration of defiance against a society that he neither understands nor approves. The solution to it does...
...colleagues on The Crimson and I liked to think, as we devoted our undergraduate lives to the paper, that this extracurricular was somehow different from many of the others at Harvard—more serious, more worthwhile, not merely one that could benefit us by teaching us skills or making us contacts but one that conferred a real benefit on the student body and on the University as a whole. Whether it was a question of how stringent our conflict-of-interest policy should be, or how we should describe anonymous sources in our paper, or whether we should allow...
...benefit from advice from several different sources,” Gross writes in an e-mail. “Their proctors can give them invaluable advice on adjusting to college, dealing with roommates, staying healthy and getting enough sleep, etc. Upperclassmen can give advice on specific courses and on extracurricular life. And the faculty is the right source for advice on academic matters, especially on the choice of a concentration...