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Then, once the previously-bewildered enroll, Harvard life gets simpler, the intuition runs. Foreign names like “Mather” eventually take on a determinate geographic location, class schedules are ironed out, and these once-unaware students figure out what it means to be at Harvard...
...student, free to make of his time here what he wishes, can, as the College’s admissions video reminds its viewers, make academics “whatever you choose it to be.” The same could be said, then, of every other component of student life as well...
Harvard’s official outlook, to be fair, does mention “late-night talks and dinner-table debates” as an important element of undergraduate life. Presumably, the collegiality present in these informal interactions could drive education at the College. However, to raise student collegiality to the level of the lecture hall would come precariously close to making academics not “whatever we choose it to be” and instead a matter of a common search for understanding—one that can’t be left at the exit...
...Harvard approach to student life is motivated by a strong individualism that enervates attempts to establish a community, since the idea of community requires that each of us not make college life “whatever you choose it to be” and instead identify a common end as worth pursuing, whether that’s in or outside of the classroom. It’s for this reason that college undergraduates are no wiser than prefrosh—spending time here doesn’t really tell each individual what Harvard life is all about. Instead...
...background of having been a part of producing the same sound and that’s a pretty special historical connection,” he says. Draves voices a similar sentiment. “You meet these people and you’ve never seen them before in your life, but you instantly have something in common with them because you know so many of the same songs and when you sing something with someone you have an instant bond,” she says...