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President of the Undergraduate Council Rohit Chopra ’04 says that Harvard students are aware that they have finite time to devote to their academic and extracurricular activities...
While at times this activity is academic work for a small class with a great professor, Chopra says it is often outside of the classroom that students feel most fulfilled. “This sort of created this dynamic where in many ways extracurriculars are a good threat to academics. It sort of taught Harvard we need to reinvent ourselves if we want a good extracurricular and a good academic scene,” says Chopra...
...campus filled with talented, impassioned students, College administrators struggle to make the curriculum as engaging as extracurricular life...
...Extracurricular activities may enrich the life of this and other colleges, but college is a serious place for education. Students are drawn to Harvard with the primary expectation of receiving an education of very high caliber and, in time, an A.B. degree,” Kirby says. “I don’t believe that is an extracurricular activity...
...argues against the theory that academics and extracurriculars are locked in a zero-sum game and instead questions, “Why we have the problem in the first place that our academic life is less satisfying to our students than our extracurricular offerings...