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...Pre-frosh weekend is most likely the time of the year when the website of the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid sees its heaviest traffic—and a highly inconvenient time for the site to fall prey to the work of a hacker...
...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...
...staying until Monday, talking to people other than the Crimson Key Society, and of course reading this column, you’re challenging the pre-frosh illusion. You’re looking for more than what you’re shown. And so I meet your challenge. Pre-frosh weekend exposes you to this place, shows you the buildings, but does not tell you if the experience is one you would like. So, from a junior who likes to think she can give advice, here are the top five reasons not to come to Harvard...