Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already preparing for next year's freshman class, by gathering together the application folders and interview files of the latest crop of would-be Harvard students. Once the members of the Class of 1992 have been selected, the FDO this spring will send them its two-page housing application form...
...search is often successful, and equally often it is not "They took all of my characteristics, and tailor-made a rooming group to perfectly match them," says Sarah B. Wigglesworth '91, explaining that she and her roommates agree in both tastes and temperaments. But another freshman says her room is "turning into a war. I'm going to cry for the rest of the year...
...better or for worse, the process begins when a computer randomly divides the files of the freshman class into six groups representing approximately 250 students apiece. The computer then arbitrarily assigns each group to the north, south, east or west Yard, to Canaday or to the Union dorms. Each group of folders then goes to a senior advisor who spends several days carefully spreading them out in his or her office, on top of the desk and all over the floor...
Having created the rooming groups, the senior advisors then divide the freshman rooms into entryways and proctorial units, once again attempting to balance the seemingly opposing goals of unity and diversity within these larger groups, she says...
...adds the large entryways of the east Yard dorms allow her to create diversity within the entries when it is not possible within the rooms. Even so, several entryways have managed to form identies of their own. This year, Mass Hall is known for housing a majority of the freshman football squad, and other dorms have gained interesting reputations in the past...