Word: extracurriculars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nguyen now lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attends a small private boys' school and takes Calculus, Physics, French, English, and Computer Science. He restarted his school's chess club, and hopes to continue playing in college. But most of his extracurricular time is not spent at the University School...
...high school, many Harvard students found they could commit themselves to a variety of extracurricular reponsibilities and still hold down a part-time job if they had to. Once they get here, however, they discover a variety of new factors that generally alter the way they spend their time. In the first place, school is much more demanding. And it costs much more, so that three quarters of the student body gets some kind of job. Finally, the extracurriculars tend to be more intense...
About 1300 students work for HSA, making it the third largest employer on campus. Silbert, who is also a varsity football cheerleader, says that HSA managers understand the press of critical dates and time periods in their employees' lives because they themselves are used to having a huge extracurricular commitment...
Cutting four days off reading period is simply cruel. It exacts a brutal toll from students in repeated all-nighters and massive doses of anxiety. The change was particularly painful to those who participate extensively in extracurricular activities, but all of us, both students and professors, have come to depend on the two-week reading period. It has become an institution around which people at Harvard plan their lives...
...trying to see how I can enrich undergraduate life," Epps said. "I've always hoped extracurricular life will complement curricular life...