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Asked to reflect on her first-year at Harvard, Andrea M. Ellwood ’06, whose outside commitments include singing a capella in the Veritones and tutoring, responds without hesitation that it was in an extracurricular activity that she discovered her niche. “My a capella group was what made this year amazing,” Ellwood says. “The friendship that I got out of that...really brought me into the College more than any of my classes...
Light says these extracurricular commitments can enrich student experience and education by offering alternatives to a structured curriculum and opportunities to develop life skills. He also surmises Harvard students appreciate the chance to “set the agenda,” an opportunity which some extracurricular activities provide. “When students are in classes they are carrying out the professor’s assignments, whereas in just about every extracurricular activity, students create their own assignments from scratch,” Light says...
Light and others say students are taught leadership and teamwork skills in their extracurricular activities—qualities that are often hard to exercise in a classroom setting...
Alex S. Captain ’06, who is involved with the International Review and works with the Model United Nations organizations on campus, also says extracurricular activities prepare students for the future...
...Some of the happiest students that I’ve had here at Harvard have used their extracurricular activities as an opportunity to connect what they do outside the classroom with things they are learning inside the classroom,” he says...