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...Freshman orientation workshops: Freshman orientation is a wonderful entrée to the exciting world of ideas and an opportunity not only to warm up one’s intellectual muscles but also to engage with one’s incredibly interesting and diverse peers. Harvard should expand its current orientation programs to encompass a series of workshops on diversity, including socioeconomic diversity, and on being sensitive to the first-generation college-goers in the classroom. Workshop leaders might include high-profile alumni and current students who came from these backgrounds, and testimonials from roommates, teammates, and others they encountered...
...Harvard as Harvard, of course, is an impolite topic of conversation, much like asking about a parent’s salary or someone’s racial composition. While the topic may drift up in the first few weeks of freshman year, it is quickly squashed by the monotony of concentration, secondary, citation, and Core credits and the erratic drive to build the old resume. Yet, periodically, the idea resurfaces. Most of the time, it’s in the form of a complaint as in, “Why the hell are they cutting hot breakfast? This is Harvard...
...that cause me and most of my fellow classmates to avoid the “What is Harvard like?” question, because the moments are both indescribable and unnerving. Last night, while I was emptying from my bookshelf all the unfinished readings I still had from my freshman seminar, I experienced the feeling again when I realized that my bookshelf will hold the unfinished coursework of many more students...
...marriage with Ola B. Aljawhary ’09, Aljawhary, who had just turned 19 and was still in her self-proclaimed “tomboy stage,” she worried that she was too young and put the idea on hold. Aljawhary and Jou met during her freshman year through the Harvard Islamic Society. According to religious tradition—both are Sunni Muslims—the two could not date without a chaperone and their interactions were limited to group settings. “We didn’t really know each other very personally before engaging...
...Harvard? KS: I should have thought more about this. And about my life in general. Who am I? What am I doing here?RR: I did not ask any of those questions.KS: Hm.RR: I think I’m going to go now.KS: I’d miss my freshman year roommates.RR: So you’ll miss the people.KS: Yeah, that and the strong religious faith of the students here.RR: Okay.KS: And the institutionalized public nudity. And the Bee. Definitely the Bee.RR: I see what you’re doing here. You’re saying things that aren?...