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Keli M. Ballinger, the manager of the UHS Center for Wellness and Health Communications and a health tutor in Dunster House, said health information and community-building are symbiotic. “We’re trying to find every different aspect of coming together and we believe that is what wellness is,” said Ballinger, who helped organize the event...
Rachel herself agrees that witnessing Dunster residents at their worst will help her in college to “be mature enough to handle the things that college students. just can’t handle yet.” Whether running into drunk fans at a hockey game, watching students get sloshed at the Harvard-Yale tailgate, or seeing a friend dance on a tabletop and take her clothes off, Rachel has had, as she explains, “experiences that other kids might age might have never been able to go through...
Although she’s only a freshman, Rachel has already begun to worry about crafting a perfect Harvard application. With three older siblings who went here, parents who are house masters, a dad who’s a professor, and a bedroom right over the Dunster dining hall, it would be hard to avoid getting stressed out by the college admissions process. For her, the pressure started in first grade, when her sister applied. Living in Dunster doesn’t always make having stellar grades and extracurriculars easy, she says, since “being at Dunster...
...That’s OK. She’s in.’” And she jokingly asked that FM relay a message to the admissions office: “Maybe you could put at the bottom, ‘Since Rachel has done so much for Dunster House, we should just admit her before putting in any college application.’” But the experience of living in Dunster may be just the ticket Rachel needs. She’s spent a lot of time hanging out with older students, and as a result...
...those “wild animal” behaviors haven’t stopped her from forming close friendships with students. Her parents have noticed that Dunster residents make extra efforts to include her, whether dancing with her at a tutor’s wedding in Portugal or cooking with her in the Porters’ kitchen. Professor Porter remembers her dancing a few Sundays ago at a 1950s-themed brunch in the dining hall with a student whom he described as a very good-looking...