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...paean to my antisocial tendencies, but rather a testament to something that I think one rarely gets at Harvard: a second to breathe, alone, out of the spotlight of the relentlessly demanding student body. We live in crowded dorm rooms, we eat in communal dining halls, we participate in extracurricular activities to an almost unfathomable degree, and, when we’re not doing all that, we’re in sections with other people arguing about Durkheim or extracting DNA from strawberries. There is a strange pressure on top of all of this to “be social?...
...Sheehan’s extracurricular involvements as a Harvard undergraduate proved helpful in dismissing their threats...
With respect to residential, extracurricular, and social life, students largely cite the absence of common spaces, interactions with upperclassmen, and high stress levels as problematic...
...academic year, a committee led by outgoing Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam and Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman '67 met on a biweekly basis to "consider the first-year experience in broad terms" in order to propose a series of recommendations relating to social, extracurricular, residential, and academic life of students that would help shape the outcome of their college experiences...
...legal victory was just the latest for increasingly visible gay and lesbian students (and their supportive straight friends) over the last decade. Gay straight alliances (GSAs) - extracurricular clubs that promote safety and tolerance in school - have grown from 200 in 1998 to more than 4,000 today. And students have won the right of GSAs to exist in more than a dozen court battles, even in relatively conservative regions like Salt Lake City, Utah and Orange County, Calif...