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...walk across the stage to get our diplomas at Commencement, we celebrate our entire Harvard experience: an experience that has consisted of four years’ worth of lectures, parties, and dining hall dinners. There are the people we have met, the classes we have taken, and the extracurricular activities we have poured our hearts into. Understandably then, graduating is an emotional personal moment, and consequently, during it, expensive keepsakes should be the last things on on one’s mind. However, there is a growing trend toward reducing the personal importance of the occasion to potential purchases...
...This classroom is empty since around 50 or 60 kids left our school to live with their parents in Spain, so we thought we would organize an extracurricular activity. That way, especially the kids whose parents are abroad are under supervision and don't get into trouble," says Catalin Ionut Florea. "The kids were really enthusiastic," adds her colleague Marian Vinatoru. "We have collected about 500 historical artifacts and are planning to expand the collection to a second room...
...attendant perks and connections that come with enrollment. “Learning to read books and reading them is such an incredibly time- and effort-consuming process that I don’t see how anyone can really pursue a liberal education combined with extracurricular activities,” he says. “It’s a free country—but there’s no shame in spending time on your studies...
...Like many others who choose Harvard over schools with majors like business and finance but still end up on Wall Street, Pencz sees his liberal arts education as a way to supplement his résumé. Extracurricular activities play a key role in preparing Pencz for his desired future: he is the business manager of Harvard Model Congress Asia, he has a research job at Harvard Business School, and a Goldman Sachs internship lined up for the summer. Pencz is also among the troop of undergraduates who heads down Mass Ave a few days a week for accounting courses...
...Given that many employers now care little what undergraduates actually studied in their classes, students have begun to craft a new type of liberal education—one where extracurriculars are the key part of career training, and academics become, in some sense, extracurricular themselves. According to Bill Wright-Swadel, the director of the Office of Career Services, the perception of liberal arts education as peripheral is not far from the truth when it comes to firms that recruit at Harvard. “Employers that we talk to for the most part tell us that the concentration...