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...Someone will say, ‘I’m going to miss being a beekeeper,’” Dingman offered. “We had a non-residential adviser who was beekeeper...
...sense was, here is a learning opportunity,” Dingman said. “We thought we could find somebody who would be a congenial match but who might break from the stereotype he just pointed...
...example, Dingman remembers that, when he was working on assigning entryways, one student asked to have roommates who were chess players. “We though that would be nice, but then they wouldn’t leave their room and there wouldn’t be any expansion,” said Dingman. “We put him on the first floor and put other chess players higher up in the same entryway...
...residential advisers drawn from the faculty and staff at Harvard. The FDO assigns residential and non-residential advisers over the summer as well. But unlike rooming, which is exclusively done by the ADF’s, advising assignments are made by a variety of people at the FDO, including Dingman and Associate Dean of Freshman Rory A. W. Browne...
...pairing of someone with a non-residential advisor doesn’t say anything about the freshman or our expectations about the freshman’s experience,” Dingman said. “But if someone says, ‘I know I want to do biological anthropology, I have significant experience, and so I am on solid ground to make that remark,’ we’ll look for a biological anthropology person to start [the student] with a meaningful connection...