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When minority women open up about their extracurricular duties, however, some find their employers surprisingly receptive. Aynesh Johnson, 35, pulled long hours as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs yet found time to sit on the board of a nonprofit that aids low-income families living in a wealthy area of Manhattan. News of her altruism reached the executive suite and might have helped her land her current role as vice president of global leadership and diversity. "It's seen as a positive," she says...
...Institute, a Boston-area organization that works with teachers and parents in school districts around the country to help improve children's academic performance. Howard and other educators say it's important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurricular activities. "The crux of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions," says Michael Nakkula, a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future), which works to get low-income underachievers in touch with...
...College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and a panel discussion moderated by Dean of Freshman Thomas A. Dingman ’67 exploring the “myths and realities” of College life. The panelists of students, coaches, and professors answered questions about time management, extracurricular activities, and opportunities for student activism. Parents also heard from University President Lawrence H. Summers, who gave them advice to share with their children. He recommended that students take the initiative to meet the faculty, choose an exciting and inspirational program of study, and avoid being “fungible...
...Also, school work saturation is never a good thing. Focusing on homework 100 percent of the time will not only get old, but will put you on the fast track to a burnout. One of the many wonderful aspects of extracurricular activities is that they provide “productive procrastination” (no, that is not an oxymoron) away from your academics. And yes, spending time with friends and just hanging out is also considered okay (even at Harvard...
...take the comfortable routes to the diploma while we are here as well. Sure, a lot of us work hard, but there is a certain security in all of it because we are almost always in pursuit of some well-established objective—the A, the elite extracurricular position, or the prestigious job. We let our filled-to-the-brim schedules direct us from class to meeting to practice to rehearsal, and at every break in between we are connected to our cell phones, our iPods, our laptops.Such busy-ness gives us the false impression that we are trailblazers...