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...area if you allow yourself some leisure time, some recreation, some time for solitude...” He went on to advise students to do less—specifically no more than one “major” and one “minor” extracurricular activity simultaneously...
...asking first-years, or any Harvard students, to give up their extracurricular activities is like asking the college to decrease the academic workload as a way to improve students’ social lives and eliminate stress—it goes against the nature of the university and it’s not fair. Just as admissions officers choose to admit applicants based on academic and extracurricular success, students matriculate at Harvard for the expansive opportunities available in these same two spheres...
Generally, Harvard students won’t slow down. We refuse to settle; we want it all and work to balance our academics, extracurricular activities and social lives. And frustrated by the limitations of our paltry 168 hours each week, we complain about our languishing social lives. Each weekend, we attempt to salvage them with long party nights and lots of alcohol. We struggle to squeeze as much social activity as possible into the limited time available. At Harvard-Yale tailgates, we drink enough for an entire semester. Events like this past weekend’s incestfest at Kirkland House...
...take multiple classes per day, an impossibility if they are forced to commute such a great distance. While we realize that many Harvard students take shuttles to classes in the Longwood medical area for instance, it is unrealistic that the same would be done for what is essentially an extracurricular activity. This is not to say that dancers are not dedicated, this is just the reality of life as a Harvard undergraduate. Moving the performances associated with the Rieman complex to Allston would also have disastrous effects on the audiences such performances could attract. Witness the (with the exception...
...Kuo’s extracurricular commitments don’t leave much time for her duties as a social studies concentrator. She woefully refers to her thesis on domestic abuse in China as “my abandoned child. I’ve messed up our relationship so badly, I don’t know how to talk to her anymore!” She spent the summer researching in Beijing, where she battled homesickness, language difficulties and a Buddhist cousin who wouldn’t kill the mosquitoes and ants in her home. This same cousin tried to convince...