Word: extracurricular
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...distance is a divide that grows in our identities. We value different ideas, different places and different people. By junior year, we are firmly rooted in Harvard community--admittedly an amorphous concept, but the Houses, extracurricular organizations and friends form our spheres of orbit. The time at the Institute of Politics, Holworthy's basement or the Murr Center becomes as much a part of us as anything else. While I once identified myself as a Southern girl, now my family tells my I talk funny (i.e. Northern). And while I harassed my Uncle Louis for yet another silly story...
...students named to each team were chosen from among 682 students nominated by their colleges and were selected based upon their grades, extracurricular activities leadership abilities...
...will be held responsible for the problem set you've just been assigned. But don't worry about that 15-page paper due next week, we're sure you can get an extension. Next it's off to participate in some extracurricular fun! You'll spend the next hour in 15 minute shifts, first in front of the Science Center acquiring frostbite as you hand out fliers urging stressed-out pre-meds to boycott animal testing, second in the cramped, smelly office of the Undergraduate Council in the basement of Holworthy drafting yourself a letter on a computer held together...
Students would also find 24-hour universal access more convenient. College students hold later hours than most other segments of the population, and we have felt confined by the limited hours of the present keycard access system. Participating in extracurricular activities that meet in the Houses and socializing at late hours will be much easier for upperclass students under the new proposal...
...those who devote the majority of their waking hours to organizations, community service and, dare I say, campus publications from those who immerse themselves in academics. Transcripts should reflect--and reward--the efforts of those who labor over their classes and, as a result, perform exceptionally well. After all, extracurricular-minded undergrads will always have their brawny resumes...