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...life, and she soon found herself a different person. “My first dancing experience in front of a crowd was at Harvard,” she says. “I used to be a shy, introverted person.” That changed quickly, according to her freshman-year roommate and current blockmate Margaret C.D. Barusch ’06, who says Adigun’s loud, unapologetic dance practice didn’t always make their neighbors happy. She and Adigun threw dance study breaks during freshman year, turning the music up so loud that other buildings...
...There is yet another reason to stay as far away as possible from Math 55: “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra.” It didn’t help Hugh M. Wolff ’75. The internationally renowned symphony conductor remembers his freshman-year initiation into the daunting world of Harvard math and science with some chagrin. “I took Physics 55 or something for physics majors and Math 50-something for math majors,” he laughs, saying he quickly realized he wasn’t cut out for the work...
...class, I think back on my first year as a Harvard undergrad. One might say that it is a far cry from my freshman year at UCLA. This is most prevalent when I notice that it is five below outside, and I remember that I had to ask my roommate for help because I did not know what a winter wardrobe consisted of up until about 15 months ago. Undeniably, there were ups and downs of my first year. It was often difficult to know that I had no blocking group because my freshman-year friends lived on the other...
...does not keep statistics on file, nor does it measure its success by tracking how many freshman-year roommates block together...
...Plimpton requested the personal reminiscences of Finch’s freshman-year roommate, Henry W. Peterson ’79, who in 1985 worked as a New York stockbroker...