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...plopped myself into an extracurricular with a predominantly white staff. And no matter how cosmopolitan Harvard students may fancy themselves, they generally were not conversant with my favorite Taiwanese movies, poetry, and martial arts novels. In addition, while the busy newsroom was a frightening place for most compers, the discomfort I felt was compounded when I walked in and saw no one who looked like me. These racial and cultural differences weren’t the only reason I didn’t find an insta-home, but they certainly played their role...
...time when sports and other extracurricular activities are being cut from schools throughout the U.S., solely getting rid of soda and other sugar-filled drinks is a Band-Aid for a bigger problem. Although I understand how those drinks help contribute to the problems of obesity and Type 2 diabetes faced by our youth, we must not forget that physical education and sports programs, which also prevent obesity and diabetes, are being trimmed from inner-city-school budgets every year. I commend the Clinton Foundation for its efforts, but I suggest that its campaign be extended to highlight the importance...
...other roommate, remembers Worth as successfully juggling commitments throughout her time here.“Financial aid was not as generous as it is today, [but] she worked all the way through her four years at Harvard while maintaining a full-on load of academic subjects and extracurricular activities,” Hill says. “She jumped fully into [all of the] opportunities studying at Harvard offers,” says Burrows of Worth, who worked at the Faculty Club as a bartender, at the Harvard Department of Athletics as a manager of two women?...
...have no time. I am so busy,'" she says. "But we make a lot of choices, and we have a lot more discretion than we give ourselves credit for," she says. Parents may be undervaluing themselves when they conclude that sending kids off to every conceivable extracurricular activity is a better use of time than an hour spent around a table, just talking...
...spring, two-thirds of the Freshman Class in a poll again claimed that they were unable to study in their rooms after 10 p.m.,” the editorial reads. “Because the afternoons and early evenings of many freshmen are taken by jobs, physical training, and extracurricular activities, the need for better study conditions is acutely obvious...