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Students come to Harvard because they want the best of both worlds—they want to challenge themselves inside and outside the classroom...
While at times this activity is academic work for a small class with a great professor, Chopra says it is often outside of the classroom that students feel most fulfilled. “This sort of created this dynamic where in many ways extracurriculars are a good threat to academics. It sort of taught Harvard we need to reinvent ourselves if we want a good extracurricular and a good academic scene,” says Chopra...
...students are talented in multiple dimensions: in scholarship, in the arts, in athletics, in the leading of organizations. I believe that activities beyond the classroom are important because they are important to the students,” says Kirby, who is also the faculty adviser to the Chinese Yo-yo Club, wrote in an e-mail...
After interviewing over a thousand Harvard students, Light wrote in his 2001 book Making the Most of College that when asked to identify a “specific, critical incident...that changed them profoundly, four-fifths of [students] chose a situation or event outside of the classroom...
Lewis says that in meeting after meeting with alumni, they warmly recall their college memories outside of the classroom...