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...daring and driven individuals venture off into Cambridge and beyond each year to live outside Harvard housing. In many cases, regardless of University attempts, students “just don’t like the housing system,” explains Orquidea Martinez, the undergraduate coordinator for Dudley House. Off-campus residents “are just regular students,” according to Martinez. “We have students who are in the Veritones and other choirs, students who are government and psychology concentrators,” she says. This diverse group has myriad reasons for making...
...Off-campus hub Dudley House, however, remains an under-utilized resource. Although it offers a range of services and support staff to off-campus students, only 35 of the eligible 155 undergraduates choose to change their House affiliation to Dudley, according to the University Housing Office. Despite these small numbers, Martinez maintains that Dudley meets its aim of creating a community space for off-campus students. Martinez, a graduate of Boston University, commented that she would have loved to have had an institution like Dudley House during her college years off-campus...
...addition to providing an intellectual and social space for off-campus students, the University’s Undergraduate Housing Office lists hundreds of properties in Cambridge and the surrounding areas that balance both cost concerns and spatial needs. Prices in Cambridge are often very expensive, and it’s often difficult to find an affordable equivalent to that gorgeous senior suite in Eliot. Despite the inevitable footwork involved, however, students who live off-campus have at least the decided luxury of not being at the mercy of the dreaded Housing lottery. Jenny Davis ’06 and Robert...
Davis cites the principles of “responsible and cooperative living” as the main reason for wanting to move off-campus. As a result of moving off-campus, she has garnered an experience most Harvard students will have to wait four years to encounter. “Two of my roommates don’t go to Harvard. That’s kind of cool,” says Davis. One of her roommates is a student at Emerson College and the other is already in the workforce. Davis enjoys the idea of drawing on a unique...
...cheaper to live off-campus, arguing that while the rent in the dorms is well subsidized by the University, the cost of board far exceeds what it costs to buy and make food off-campus. The reason to move off campus extends beyond the simple logistics of grocery shopping and cooking; for Davis, it is a reflection of a different lifestyle ethos. “[Living off-campus] gives you a little space from Harvard. A little space to think about what you are doing,” she says...