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...anguish and the ecstasy will come from the fact that the current housing system is fundamentally unfair. Harvard's housing resources are unequal: Some Houses have more room, some better views, and most importantly, some are close to classes and the extracurricular heart of campus, while others are...near the Observatory...
...unfortunate extension of a University bureaucracy that requires a steady diet of paper munchies. And as annoying as they may be, applications are a universal part of obtaining employment. But what doesn't make sense is the way that students on this campus dream up convoluted application processes for extracurricular organizations and then shove them down their peers' throats. Equally mystifying is the reason why the members of the student body not already a part of these 'in' groups are so eager to participate in what one Crimson columnist has called an "illusion of meritocracy...
...attributed to human nature, institutional memory or the status quo, we all need a break from time to time. As I sit here with a seven-page Harvard Model United Nations Secretariat application burning a hole in my desk, I remember with fondness my one non-application extracurricular activity this year--IM ice hockey. If there had been a selection process, I wouldn't have had a chance seeing as I accomplished nothing greater than falling over. But standing there on the ice, in skates that caused my ankles to turn in and gloves so big I couldn't even...
...contemplate life's higher questions and learn to appreciate its more refined pleasures. Admittedly, the notion that college is a time for self-edification, shielded from the more crass concerns of the rat race, has been under assault for years. From the increasingly heated resume-padding battles of the extracurricular sphere, to the proliferation of pre-professional courses, the purely liberal education has long been on the wane--especially here at Harvard. However, not until the TECH, has the rejection of liberal pedagogic ideals been so explicit...
...Despite their self-important delusions, all the editors and heads of student groups in our midst are essentially trivial people. In the grand scheme of things, they are fundamentally unimportant. Nothing they do has any critical impact on anything. Any problem that could possibly arise in the context of extracurricular collegiate life can wait. Most can probably wait days, but at the very least, every conceivable hiccup can wait until e-mail has been checked or messages have been played...