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Once Fee arrived at Harvard, she delved into a myriad of extracurricular activities. A CityStep teacher throughout her four years at Harvard, she served on the executive board during her junior year. “CityStep sucks you in,” Fee acknowledges, “but it’s great to have a diverse group of people who become so bonded...
...terms of dance, I feel that student groups are very strong and are becoming more prominent. While the Dance Program does offer a few credit courses, I think the strength of the dance program at Harvard is based on the fact that it is predominantly extracurricular. As a result, students involved in dance are enthusiastic about what they do because they independently choose to spend their free time in the studios...
...recognize similar benefits. At the same time, while the dancers involved in Harvard Ballet Company are very enthusiastic about dancing, we rarely have the funding to fully realize all of our goals and ambitions, and this is a directly attributable to the fact that dance at Harvard is primarily extracurricular...
...Samita A. Mannapperuma ’06 campaign. I assumed that Teo’s and Samita’s experience would sway at least a few voters. But I, for one, was so repelled by the 14—count ’em, 14—extracurricular positions Samita listed in her online profile that I discounted the entire ticket. By my count, someone with 14 extracurricular obligations already will likely not be able to devote her full attention to number 15. As for other students, well, maybe they just weren’t inspired by the blue...
What was it? We are juniors, upperclassmen now—maybe that’s it. Having at long last burrowed into depths of extracurricular entrenchment in recent months, maybe we’re running too many sports teams, homeless shelters, clubs and publications to feel good about tearing ourselves away. When we were but tadpoles among full-grown frogs, it was generally no big deal if we had to miss a meeting. But suddenly, we’re running those meetings, and getting away is no longer a simple thing...