Olympian Emily Hughes to Attend Harvard University While Continuing Skating Career

[SailorGalaxia518]

Olympian Emily Hughes to Attend Harvard University While Continuing Skating Career

http://www.usfsa.org/event_story.asp?id=38491

Good for her

I am so proud of her

 

[SeaniBu]

on Emily!!!!!

 

[flying camel]

Wow how lucky she is to go to Harvard. I wonder why she doesn't get an apartment nearby. Why stay in the doorms?

Maybe Mark can choreograph a nice LP for Emily. So, she will be training with Julianna. That should be interesting. I wonder how she feels about that.

 

[Mathman]

Why stay in the doorms?

I'm probably way out of date, but back in the stone age Freshmen were required to stay in the dorms. When they got to be sophomores they could move into an apartment if they wanted to.

The dorms aren't so bad, though. Back then we had maids come and clean up our rooms every day, plus you could leave your shoes outside your door and someone would shine them for you, plus do your laundry. Also, all freshmen were required to dress for dinner (sophomores could get part-time jobs as waiters in the Freshmen Commons, LOL.)

 

[SeaniBu]

^geesh, you are old.

J/K

 

[R.D.]

Thanks for the heads up. But a full load while going full-steam on skating? Good luck with that

<-- knows what a taking full load is like :yes:

I hate to be gloomy here but this means that Emily's peak has been reached. Unless she decides to put college on hold and concentrate on skating.

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

With sister at Yale and she in Harvard, where are the brothers? Columbia has Tim Goebel, anyone at Princeton? Didn't Debbie Thomas go to Stanford? Where did Tenley Albright go? I think someone went to Brown.

There are some very brilliant figure skaters in Ivy Leauge or Prestigious universities.

 

[iluvtodd]

Good for Emily!

 

[STL_Blues_fan]

With sister at Yale and she in Harvard, where are the brothers? Columbia has Tim Goebel, anyone at Princeton? Didn't Debbie Thomas go to Stanford? Where did Tenley Albright go? I think someone went to Brown.

There are some very brilliant figure skaters in Ivy Leauge or Prestigious universities.

Matt Savoie at Cornell Law School!

good for Emily!

I ahve to say, I am very ticked off at my dear brother, who decided against attending Cornell Law School. Besides being a short drive away from me, I was hoping to run into Matt while visiting little brother. He decided to go to Michigan at Ann Arbor. Rats!

 

[attyfan]

With sister at Yale and she in Harvard, where are the brothers? Columbia has Tim Goebel, anyone at Princeton? Didn't Debbie Thomas go to Stanford? Where did Tenley Albright go? I think someone went to Brown.

There are some very brilliant figure skaters in Ivy Leauge or Prestigious universities.

Tenley went to Harvard Medical School, but she got her undergraduate degree at Radcliffe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenley_Albright

In the '50s and '60s, Harvard didn't admit women to the undergraduate program (women went to Radcliffe -- men to Harvard). Times have changed!

Seriously -- I'm looking for a Hughes v. Hughes skating event during the half time show in the Harvard v. Yale football game

 

[Tinymavy15]

Dorms are a privlage in most colleges, Esp Ivy Leauge ones. I am really surprised that Emily decided to dorm... being on the road a lot and all that... i t woudl make more sense to get her own place. I think that for Freshman, your name is drawn out in a lottery to see who gets the dorms... most schools are seriously over-crowded.

I wonder how she is doing to find time to train etc... Her coach will be all the way down in NY.

 

[SK8LUVR]

Emily

Congratulations Emily! What an accomplishment!

On the skating side, she is going to be very hard pressed to do both. Many other skaters put university on hold until they are done skating. I did not go to an Ivy League university and I would not have been able to be an elite athlete and keep up the grades you need to attend Harvard. Good luck to her but I think that one or the other is going to suffer.

I hope that she can proove me wrong.

 

[mizu_iro]

Aren't students required to dorm for the first year or two at Harvard? I know that housing is guaranteed all four years.

Congrats to Emily! SCOB is right across the river from campus, so it was probably a smart choice distance-wise.

 

[chuckm]

Dorms are a privlage in most colleges, Esp Ivy Leauge ones. I am really surprised that Emily decided to dorm... being on the road a lot and all that... i t woudl make more sense to get her own place. I think that for Freshman, your name is drawn out in a lottery to see who gets the dorms... most schools are seriously over-crowded.

I wonder how she is doing to find time to train etc... Her coach will be all the way down in NY.

There is a skating rink near Harvard where Emily will train with Mark Mitchell and Peter Johanson while she is at school. When she is home, she will continue to train with Bonnie Retzkin.

I am not sure Emily will be on the road 'a lot'. We won't know if she's doing two GP events until mid-June, but aside from that, there probably won't be any more cheesefests since the new NBC agreement doesn't allude to any.

Emily could do Skate America without disrupting her school life much, since it isn't that far away from Harvard (Reading, PA). I'm not so sure about a second GP, though. Anything other than Skate Canada would mean a full week away from school, because of the travel. And skaters don't have a choice as to which GP invitations they receive.

The biggest hurdle for her is likely to be US Nationals, which will require a week away from school, and which may conflict with exams.

I think Emily is going to find mixing competitive skating with an Ivy League education nothing short of exhausting. That may allow some other skater(s) to slip ahead of her on the US podium and she may have a hard time punching a ticket to Worlds 2008.

 

[STL_Blues_fan]

Nationals will not disrupt her schedule too much- they are held during the 3rd week of January or so and most schools just start the winter semester at that time (at least those that do 2 semesters, I am fairly certain Harvard doesn't do quaters). So she misses the first week of school, no big deal.

as far as the dorm, all freshmen are required to stay in the dorms their first year in school. There is no choice.

 

[feraina]

Harvard finals & national's

Actually, Harvard uses the first two weeks of January as reading period (party for some, review for others), and the third week for exams, so the exams come just before National's. She can't even ask to postpone the exams, because grades are due by National's. All she can do is ask to take them as early as possible (and be disadvantaged wrt her peers) and focus on training afterwards. I don't see her pulling both off.

 

[R.D.]

oh. They don't end in December? :scratch: January is usually intersession month. At least when I went to Boston to tour Harvard in January 2004 I believe school was out (didn't see a lot of students about). I also toured Brown and they were out for intersession (it was frickin' cold as well).

 

[feraina]

Harvard academic calendar The students hate it because they can't have a relaxed Christmas break. The reading period is OxBridge mimicry I think (though there they only take exams in late spring). Maybe you caught Harvard during reading week (some busy studying, others recovering from hangovers).

By the way, Harvard does have its own rink (where An Evening with Champions takes place), so Emily can use that practicing on her own. Even so, I think it'll be too tough for her.

 

[flying camel]

Actually, Harvard uses the first two weeks of January as reading period (party for some, review for others), and the third week for exams, so the exams come just before National's. She can't even ask to postpone the exams, because grades are due by National's. All she can do is ask to take them as early as possible (and be disadvantaged wrt her peers) and focus on training afterwards. I don't see her pulling both off.

I remember all those rough skates Paul Wiley use to have around Nationals. He said his final exams were always around nationals. Good Luck Emily!

 

[R.D.]

Harvard academic calendar The students hate it because they can't have a relaxed Christmas break. The reading period is OxBridge mimicry I think (though there they only take exams in late spring). Maybe you caught Harvard during reading week (some busy studying, others recovering from hangovers).

Yeah, that's when I visited (around Jan 10- forgot the exact date). But wow...that's messed up.