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...differences seemed almost too big two years ago, when Murillo was a high school senior deciding which college to attend. Murillo says it was the close bonds she formed with other Latino students at Pre-frosh Weekend that convinced her that coming to the College wouldn’t necessarily mean leaving her culture behind...
...Canaday IM representative and leader of the protest effort, “the last-minute change to the tennis competition and unfair multiplier that puts bigger dorms at a disadvantage” has resulted in “mortal combat” with rival Apley Hall. According to the Frosh IM Web site, individual events within the Yard Bucket Competition are weighted according to a normalized scale from one to four based on the actual number of people in the dorm. Thus Canaday, the largest dorm, is multiplied by one. In an e-mail sent Tuesday, the freshman IM coordinators...
...goal of the report is to reduce the bureaucracy surrounding event planning. One of the changes is a cap of two on the number of large events—such as House parties or dances—per night, with the possibility of exceptions for weekends like pre-frosh weekend. “I don’t think by only having two events we now have some dearth of events on campus,” McLoughlin said. McLoughlin said over the last three semesters, there were only five weekends in which there were more than two large events...
...giving office does not end as soon as the check is cashed. Almost all institutions require grant recipients to submit copies of their theses, but some play a bigger role in the writing process. For example, the Harvard College Research Program requires students to display their work during pre-frosh weekend. As the grant application process is slowly clarified, perhaps more students will take advantage of funding opportunities—a choice that would be very much to their advantage. According to Kwong, applying for grants to pursue independent research is one of the most educative experiences available at Harvard...
...decided as a hopeful pre-frosh that college would be all about assimilation, even if it killed me. After years of being held back by a family a tad too eccentric for my hometown’s comfort, I was ready to joyfully jump into the mainstream. With my creepy ability to gauge the general atmosphere of a place and then adopt it as my own, I decided even before my freshman year that Harvard was brimming with scrappy people who like to go hiking and recycle plastics and give and receive head lamps as gifts. Yet one rather large...