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...library hours on Friday and Saturday nights. Thesis and midterm seasons in particular often require that students study on the weekends as well as weeknights. And, during the regular school year, weekends are often the most difficult times to study in one’s room because of loud dorm parties. While some House libraries may be open through the night, students often face a lack of information—as the HCL website does not list House library hours. And even those Houses libraries, like Adams, that are permanently open, often are rendered useless by loud events in adjoining...
About this time every year, Harvard undergraduates begin weighing their options for the summer. For 400 of them, Spring Clean-Up with Harvard’s Dorm Crew constitutes the first venture into an intense season full of financial internships, community service, and even the occasional family vacation...
...blissful March afternoon (or December evening for others among us). That megalomaniacal rush, that untouchable feeling of self-worth, has vanished. Perhaps it’s tainted, diminished, or even forgotten. Harvard students have been accustomed to being the best, so some might regard that relegation to a mere dorm porter to be a tough pill to swallow...
...many of us choose to dedicate four weeks of our summer serving (for pay) in such menial capacities. In the rush of all the events during the school year, we never seem to have time to pause and step off the high road of the Harvard undergraduate. Through Dorm Crew, we are literally given the tools to broaden our minds, a ladder to descend from the ivory tower. Somewhere in that broom lies a life lesson that struggles to impart itself; we ought to be open enough to allow the humility of hard manual labor to take hold...
This May will see those four hundred students with the quintessential Dorm Crew tools—buckets and rags—descend upon the Yard and the Houses. Some are working to earn a bit of spending money for their European excursion, others as a transition between the raucous end-of-year celebrations and the lucrative consulting position that has been on their mind since the congratulatory phone call from McKinsey. In the midst of it all, maybe some of the modesty and perspective that escaped out the window so long ago as that letter arrived will return home...