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Snapping on her rubber gloves—the job would be “pretty gross” without them, she admits—she sprays on Mur-Kil (Dorm Crew’s disinfectant of choice), dips the sponge in the bowl, and gives the porcelain a scrub, finishing up with a last swipe, rinse, and flush. Although she has just achieved in five minutes what some of her accomplished fellow classmates will go four years without doing, she waxes philosophical about the experience...
...students. There is an overwhelming culture of complaint at Harvard. Students bemoan the amount of work they have like adolescent boys comparing shoe sizes. They curse Harvard for bad TFs, uninspiring lecturers, the quality of dorm life (and dorm food), the fact that the College—gasp—officially enforces Mass. state alcohol law, poor advising, and a smorgasbord of more petty annoyances...
...administration, even to ask for too much—that’s how we got Loker Pub Nights, after all. What bothers me about all the complaining we do is that some students really feel entitled to moan about Harvard as though they deserve waterslides, cable in every dorm room, and course reading lists that only contain picture books. A lot of us undergraduates need to get some perspective. Sure, Harvard has some lousy advisors, unintelligible TFs, and a sometimes muted party scene, and the University needs balanced criticism (see below). But be fair—Harvard does...
...Dining halls. At Harvard, we are faced with an ironic situation: the food in the dining halls is not very good, but we still complain that dining hall hours are too short. Perhaps this is caused by the fact that Harvard requires every student living in a dorm to purchase a full meal plan, so everyone feels like they’re getting cheated when they can’t eat the food they wouldn’t want to eat anyway...
...task force recommends that one of the upperclass Houses be used as a summer dorm for students conducting research in Harvard labs. Franklin said the centralized housing could be “really fun” for students and that the dorm could host evening events teaching the “tools” of science research...