Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It’s hard to forget that first foray into a world known affectionately to extracurricular gurus as “postering.” In the past, people-who-postered did their stuff on Mondays and Thursdays around 7:30 am, after Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) had cleared bulletin boards and kiosks. Confusion over postering has reigned since last fall, when, in response to frigid temperatures, the Undergraduate Council successfully launched an initiative to change the kiosk strip times to 12:30 p.m., allowing caffeinated promoters to sleep in a bit. Still, “No one really...
...deservedly so. The winners were the students who postered every entryway in their yard weeks in advance, the ones who knocked on doors and schmoozed with potential constituents, and the go-getters with enough initiative to draw up entire platforms. The losers? Kids (like me) grasping at whichever extracurricular straws were closest at hand...
...would be hard to dream up anything less successful). However, unless students both contribute to that decision and agree with the rationale behind it, the new general education requirement (the current proposed successor to the Core) will become unpopular long before the next review. We can tinker with academic, extracurricular and social structures at Harvard all we want, but without engaging students and focusing on their experience and culture it will be for naught...
...feel that I should take advantage of them. My classes are very important to me, but it is the experiences I get during the year at the art museums and over the summer at various arts-related jobs keeps me content with my academic studies, my extracurricular life and even my social life insofar as those I meet through museum work, more often than not, become some of my best friends...
...going on the tour that was offered. It felt great to have been a part of the team that organized the event and succeeded in bringing students to the Fogg Museum. The museum, more than usual, really felt like a second home that night. My academic, extracurricular, and social lives all coincided at this one event—and I was ecstatic...