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...thing that we look for in candidates is leadership quality, a healthy ambition,” said another panelist, senior admissions officer and first-year proctor Matt DeGreeff ’89. DeGreeff said some students feel that “if you don’t go out and do something great, you’re not fulfilling your Harvard charge...
...Gena S. Ciccone ’04 had wanted to study gingivitis, she would have been all set. Her first-year proctor and academic adviser was a fourth-year dental student and Berkeley grad. But her passion for teeth was limited to brushing them, so the situation was not ideal. “He knew nothing about Harvard’s undergraduate program, especially the frosh experience,” she says...
...there’s only so much that proctors who received their B.A.s from other institutions can learn about Harvard in a week, and then they are expected to impart their knowledge to their first-year charges. But proctors argue that this does not have to be a liability, and can even become an advantage. “Our advising role is to be a general resource and a safety net, not a directory bureau,” says Wigglesworth proctor Nicholas J. Tustin. While proctors with Harvard undergraduate experience know the system intimately, others can offer a less biased...
That’s where the prefect system comes in. The two or three upperclassmen who plan social events for each proctor group are, for some first-years, their only glimpse into life past the Yard. As Nathans puts it, “Peer advisers are important supports to first-year students in many respects. They can introduce them to some of the routines of undergraduate life; they can offer important wisdom about time management and about balancing extracurriculars and academic work; they can provide a sounding board for some of the concerns and doubts that first-year students experience...
Indeed, from a non-residential position, it can often come as a challenge for prefects to maintain close relationships with their first-years. Barbara Eghan ’05 says that she is pretty sure that her prefects don’t even know her name. She suggests that “prefects live in freshman housing with no disciplinary authority. Their function would be better served and you’d get to know them better—having this kind of resource close at hand is especially crucial during the confusing time of freshman year...