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...Yale system would provide a network for first-years to meet upperclassmen—granting them academic and social advisers in the way that many other schools have RAs. As it stands, social interaction between first-years and upperclassmen is limited to extracurricular activities and sports teams. But a junior with whose House you are affiliated can tell you which classes to avoid and can invite you to their party this coming Saturday...
...this modus operandi tends to have a few adverse effects. The first is that we find ourselves constantly trying to win other people’s approval. We campaign for extracurricular positions, we dress nicely for recruiting interviews and we want peers and professors to agree with our arguments. The second is that our resources of such high-intensity time and energy are limited. Sometimes we’re so preoccupied with chasing our own personal cyclones that our friends or others who would be close to us are left behind. The third is that we end up being good...
Lewis hypothesizes that as a result of the current economic slowdown, first-year students feel pressure to take care of themselves before engaging in altruistic community service or other extracurricular pursuits...
...administrative pleas for students to consider their studies and mental health when shopping for extracurricular groups have been heeded, Lewis says that does not necessarily mean there is something wrong with the Class...
...decline in interest in extracurricular activities is not an irrational response,” Lewis writes. “It is actually more of a restoration of the old ideal that what you learn in college can be the difference between achievement and just getting by in later life...