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...this point, cramming for exams is second nature. We know how to write essays in our sleep. We have somehow even managed to fit a full class schedule and many hours of extracurricular activity into one week and still do almost a quarter of the reading. You start to fear that you may never be able to do anything as well as you were able to do in school...
While the lack of office space has been a common concern surrounding extracurricular groups, it has not been the only one. The sense of community and spirit of cooperation that emerges from the student center might break down traditional boundaries between campus communities—service and political groups, racial and non-racial groups, for example. When a member of the International Relations Council can drop by the Fuerza office to discuss an upcoming project and then catch a Din and Tonics concert upstairs in the 4th floor performance hall, the campus might start to feel a bit more like...
Oftentimes, our complaints about Harvard are problems that are well within our ability to change, and the accumulated wisdom that grows from stronger peer advising and more frequent extracurricular collaboration might be enough to do just that. The lessons Harvard students can learn from these kinds of collaborations, both on a personal and group level, can extend far beyond the confines of course selection or meeting scheduling. By seeing other students as peers rather than competitors and other groups as allies rather than opponents, we can grow as individuals and as organizations and learn skills and values that will serve...
...Harvard.Additionally, Harvard students keep busy. Ingber himself hasn’t had much time for comedy in the past three years due to his involvement with the a capella group the Din and Tonics and Hasty Pudding Theatricals.IMPROV-MENTSThe real hotbed of performance comedy at Harvard are its extracurricular improvisational comedy groups, On Thin Ice (OTI) and the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP).OTI—which specializes in comedy improv based around two-minute games à la TV’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”—will perform...
...wrote his “Slow Down” letter as an attack on the same kind of thing. The popular press caught on almost as quickly, overworking the “College Admissions Game Getting Harder to Win” angle until phrases like “extracurricular activities” and “unweighted grade point average” became household terms...