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...extracurricular-sponsored happy hours and room parties that define my social experience on campus will eventually evolve into happy hours (at actual bars!) and mixers not unlike the one I attended last Monday. The difference between this summer and two years from now, after I graduate from college, is that what is a game to me now, an exercise in being "grown up," will very likely be my reality during my unattached and professional twenties...
...prepared meals—will eventually be replaced with the life I'm variously experiencing this summer. At some point, I won't meet new people in the dining hall or at a Crimson party, but at a conference happy hour or young alumni event. The classes and extracurricular activities that help define my identity on campus will be replaced with an office title and whatever I can squeeze in on my weekends or after-work hours. Even my self-conception will need reworking, as I will have to decide whether to introduce myself as coming from the rural area...
...with courses in moral philosophy that were often conducted by The Reverend President, they expressed that duty through the system of compulsory chapel. There, the students would be instructed in the Bible and addressed by their elders on their moral and religious duties. To reduce chapel to an optional extracurricular activity seemed to many of the devout a substantial abandonment of the College’s religious identity and an abdication of its responsibility to the undergraduates to whom the College related in loco parentis...
...year before she was born, says that her parents’ Cambodian culture remained a significant part of their lives, even in the States. Aside from pursuing public sector work under the fellowship, which will mark her first trip to Cambodia, Leng will meet more extended family. Her extracurricular experiences at Harvard also furthered Leng’s connection to her culture. Leng, a government concentrator, threw herself into her work with Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). Though she did not join the organization until the spring of her sophomore year, she spent a summer co-directing the Summer Urban...
...same is true for extracurricular activities. After initially being involved in more organizations than I could handle, I realized that a high-school-style approach just wouldn’t cut it. If nothing else, my liver simply wouldn’t be able to withstand all of the social events these clubs held...