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...freshmen that become overwhelmed by the cornucopia of booths at the fall activities fair, Fryhofer bit off a bit more than she could chew. Albeit attending Atlanta’s Westminster School, the Georgian’s transition to collegiate life was less than smooth due to a heavy extracurricular overload...
Fryhofer also appears to be in her element at Harvard, where she has flourished both on and off the court. In addition to her plethora of extracurricular activities, the pre-law sophomore will be concentrating in Government and is pursing a citation in Spanish...
...they can rest assured: The College has agreed to keep Quad shuttles running through 3:45 AM, meaning that weekday service will not be modified at all. Students returning to the Quad from late nights studying in Lamont, socializing at the river, and engaging in extracurricular activities in the yard area will no longer be left out in the cold. The revised set of cuts, which is limited to weekend mornings—when shuttles are little used and safety concerns less pressing—seems more reasonable. The policy reversal likely results from the vocal response to the original...
...personal statement demonstrated a commitment to an extracurricular activity, and ended on a cheery note about personal growth. The students I work with at Henry Street have many ideas about what makes a college essay, and they are usually less comfortable. One of them, P, who came here with his brothers from Panama just two years ago, wrote about his parents’ divorce and his abandonment by his mother. P and many of his peers have never written about their tumultuous personal lives before. Their essays serve many functions that mine didn’t: venting, confiding, and forgiving...
...afternoon; by 8 that night, he'd called four people he knew in Ohio who did the same sort of computer work he did, as well as his college buddy Lyell, down in North Carolina. "I'd been using Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn, but in a very passive, extracurricular way," says Ward. "I knew Lyell was big into the Twitter scene. He immediately began blasting information out to contacts he had, sending them back my way." Over the weekend, Ward updated all of his online profiles. He uploaded a fresh résumé to LinkedIn, the professionals' networking...