Word: extracurricular
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...joining a club. The first-years are beginning to discover how much of life at Harvard is organized around extracurricular activities...
...would think that a flutist-cum-poet with a 1,520 sat, an unblemished transcript and a passion for philosophy would find a warm welcome at Houston's Rice University. Renaissance Girl was involved in so many extracurricular activities - band, the literary magazine, the astronomy, philosophy and poetry clubs - that it took minute handwriting to squeeze them onto the application. Yet she never made it off the waiting list...
...section of the application reserved for extracurricular activities, I recorded everything I'd ever participated in and what it meant to me. I neglected to realize that this over- abundance would have the same effect as a transparently padded resume. I was no doubt seen not as a must-have Renaissance student but as someone who'd embraced every club and pursuit superficially, without really investing in any one of them...
Student center boosters are on the strongest ground when they argue that a new building would provide expanded office space for extracurricular groups. They are right that while the number of student groups has ballooned, almost all office space in the converted basements of Yard dormitories is already occupied; a new student complex could easily accommodate offices for many student groups...
...Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, occupies a special niche on the campus extracurricular scene. For most of the year, the Lampoon's editors remain within the walls of what they like to believe is an impenetrable mock-Flemish castle. And then, once or twice every semester, they venture forth to distribute an issue of the magazine, or perhaps a Crimson parody. Their work done, they recede silently back into the shrouded depths of the castle...