Word: froshes
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...This year, the Admissions Council changed the starting date so that the pre-frosh program began on Saturday morning and will end this evening. In previous years, the program began on Friday and pre-frosh returned home on Sunday...
...Perhaps because administrators know this, their only other public actions have been to refuse to speak, and—in the case of one administrative figure speaking at a pre-frosh panel—to publicly make fun of students silently holding signs for a living wage. Such tactics are, to say the least, unimpressive...
...intrepid pre-frosh who have stayed beyond this beautiful weekend: Congratulations...
Monday is the day when the real Harvard College surfaces. Undergrads always joke that pre-frosh weekend gives a false impression of our college life. First of all, it’s April and it’s warm. At no other time of the year is it possible to go out in shorts. (It snowed last Monday.) The admissions office times your arrival and the return of the color green to Boston perfectly...
Second, pre-frosh weekend is just that: a weekend. You did not arrive until Saturday, missing the classes and work of weekday Harvard. By nature of the warmth and the relative lack of work, on pre-frosh weekend Harvard has a social life. But don’t be fooled—Loker does not always host mixers. The Leverett ’80s dance does not happen every weekend. The social scene here is dominated by the “Harvard Hundred”—meaning the same hundred people rather than a hundred parties...