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...best that makes us despair when anything else occurs. Perhaps the most valuable lesson Harvard imparts to its students is that life contains hills, valleys and a lot of ground in between and that our experience here is ultimately what we make of it. We can do 10 extracurricular activities or none, go out all weekend or stay in, write a thesis or not. It is this ability to decide for ourselves, the frightening control over our destiny and its consequences, that frames both the beauty of a Harvard education and its frustration. We are forever indebted to this institution...
Like Bundles, Tewksbury plunged into extracurricular activities after coming to Radcliffe from Saugus. A dabbler in various activities, she did community service through the Phillips Brooks House Association, managed Harvard Student Agencies' ring agency and was the head of intramural sports in North House...
Carty says her college experience was characterized less by extracurricular activities than by the friends she made. What she remembers most about college, she says, was "wearing a silly bathrobe and talking for hours." One evening, a friend who was a gourmet cook was baking a chocolate cake from scratch. Before being served, the cake caved in like a disappointing souffle...
...endless variations on unflavored chicken entrees or attend 500-student lectures (something many of us stopped doing years ago anyway). But it shouldn't mean that the people who have been part of our lives won't stay that way. Our fellow seniors are our friends and lovers, our extracurricular colleagues and our fiercest rivals. By maintaining ties to those who have given our lives meaning, we can keep ourselves afloat amidst all the uprooting and reshuffling of our priorities and ideals. No matter how turbulent life becomes, it's always easier to orient yourself when you have other people...
...school." Studies show that students make better grades in smaller schools. They are less likely to be involved in fights or gangs because they know someone is always watching. They are less embarrassed to discuss problems with teachers. They have better attendance, lower dropout rates and more participation in extracurricular activities. "It doesn't matter what category you measure," says Kathleen Cotton, a researcher at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, Ore. "Things are better in smaller environments. Shy kids, poor kids, the average athletes--they all are made to feel like they...