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Leaders from FIP and FUP also arrived to help as 2012ers trickled through the Science Center doors. "It's like a hurricane. It's like New Orleans," said a passing freshman...
Woodbridge has established several programs help student from abroad acclimate to their new environments, including the Freshman International Program (FIP), mentor-mentee counseling, and activities designed for students who can’t go home over Thanksgiving and winter breaks...
...truly international organization.FIP REFUGEERebecca R. Gong ’08, Woodbridge’s incoming president, is a product of that culture. Born in America, and educated in China, Gong’s American citizenship prevented her from participating in Harvard’s Freshman International Program (FIP). Tackling the issues that immediately face students from a foreign country, FIP helps internationals obtain social security numbers, bank accounts, and cell phones, and also introduces them to the Cambridge and Boston area through a variety of trips, including one to Fenway Park for a Red Sox game.It can be an international...
...hundred-and-ninety-four years after the U.S. invasion of Canada failed, Harvard is finally recognizing that students from the North Country are not Americans. Starting next fall, Canadian students will be allowed to participate in the Freshmen International Program (FIP). Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 approved the change after members of the Harvard Canadian Club complained about the fact that they had been excluded from the program. “We are international, we are from a sovereign nation,” said Lauren P.S. Epstein ’07, prime minister...
...thing is that, at its best, the Woodbridge Society can be rather impressive. A few days before fall term starts, it runs the Freshmen International Program (FIP), an orientation program for international students. FIP does a remarkable job getting complex information about visas, Boston, and mental health across to frazzled foreign first-years. For many students, it provides a first taste of Harvard, and fortunately its a good one. As soon as the school year starts, however, Woodbridge takes its leave from the lives of its FIP charges...