Word: fops
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...First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP) believes in the power of the backpack...
...when 10 Harvard students are hiking through the New England backcountry, we need every bit of that space. So although I cannot take my pack to class unless I plan to camp out in the Science Center, there are other lessons that I—along with 350 other FOP leaders and first-years—did take back from the woods when we returned, smelly and rumpled, to fair Harvard...
...home after a long trip. It is a little strange and uncomfortable at first, but in time it feels as if you’ve been there forever. It is almost inexplicable, but the woods seem to be a catalyst for community. Bonding moves at lightning speed, and the FOP group becomes a surrogate family, recapping the day’s events while laughing and joking over macaroni and cheese...
Harvard is like a new campsite, only the sleeping bags and plastic tarps are replaced by extra-long beds and red brick facades. Just as Annenberg fare is more or less equivalent to backcountry food cooked in bulk, the Harvard community is comparable to a FOP group on a larger scale. Your entryway, your tutorial, your Expos class and even Justice are places where you and your fellow students can come together over a common goal. There are opportunities at every turn to make Harvard your home. It is tough to find a niche in a group...
...point at which camp and Harvard interesect most explicitly is the Freshman Outdoors Program (FOP). “FOP is definitely summer-campish,” FOP Leader Samuel B. Smolley ’05 says. FOPpers play games like the strangely named Ground Squirrel, which is “probably the only time you’ll hear a Harvard student say ‘shake that bushy tail.’ All dignity goes out the window and it’s a good thing.” FOP Leader Natasha M. Pasternack ’03 agrees...