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Aside from the attraction of the name, Harvard does bring the general college application process to the forefront of SSP extracurricular events. Besides the college essay seminar, an event entitled "How to Get into Harvard" was open to students--preceding the seminar "The Top 10 Reasons Why Not to Apply to Harvard...
Nevertheless, many SSP students are open about their ambitions. A Canaday resident, enrolled in a hefty number of science classes, says she is looking forward to requesting recommendations from her professors. Already, she is considering the extracurricular activities she might pursue at Harvard...
...know about you, but I fear a generation without table manners. I feel as if I'm on a treadmill. I'm exhausted. A growing number of parents agree. This year some Minneapolis suburbanites founded Family Life 1st to call for limits on extracurricular activities (you can visit the group's website at Family Life1st.org) Says the group's organizer Bill Doherty: "The problem is consumerism--overscheduling our kids because we think of them as products to develop...
...against a Texas high school's prayers before football games, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, "[P]regame prayer has the improper effect of coercing those present to participate in an act of religious worship." The public-school district had argued that attendance at football games was voluntary and "decidedly extracurricular." Because I played high school football in Texas in the 1980s, one aspect of Justice Stevens' majority response to this distinction struck home to me. By pointing out that "team members themselves" have to be there, he defended those of us who were simply feverish for football and less...
...took me two and a half years to decide to join that sorority. I just pledged last semester--my junior spring--yet it's already become one of my most significant extracurricular experiences at school. The reason is that by the time I pledged, I was positive that the sorority was the right place for me, because I knew myself--a seemingly simple statement, but one that was a long time in coming...