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...school his life, a life of after-hours student baseball games and debate tournaments and art shows. These days at least, DeAngelis isn't falsely modest about this commitment: "People are saying I was out of touch with this school. I put in hours and hours and hours at extracurricular activities. I was at the play last year when Dylan was lighting specialist... Ask my wife how many hours I'm gone...
...their thinking. Sure, parents often play an influential role in the process, pushing for the school where they themselves had gone or perhaps for the campus that's closer to home, but ultimately, students will be on their own at their chosen college, reasonably free to explore new academic, extracurricular and social options. That's the way it's supposed...
...most important part of college life is not the quality of the academic experience, not the kinds of extracurricular activities available, not the luxuriousness of campus facilities but merely the idea of student independence. Home-schooled students already miss out on a great deal of social interaction and diversity during their middle and high school years; imagine the level of isolation PHC's environment will create. Undergraduates may learn a great deal about the liberal arts and the Western canon; they may even learn a great deal about the workings of Congress, but they will graduate without ever having lived...
...extracurricular route is a sound one," Prince said. "You don't need someone standing over you with a stick and beating you with what plays you need to read...
Some of these proposals spring from the candidates' extracurricular involvement. Wikler's interest in improved athletic facilities stems from his involvement in first-year heavyweight crew. Plants' technology proposals are linked to his job as an Eliot House User Assistant. Both are active in theatre groups that they would like to support with more funds and space...