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Every year, hundreds of underage and barely legal prefrosh invade Harvard’s campus, popping up everywhere from upper-level economics classes to hallway bathrooms to final club parties. While last year’s prefrosh weekend featured a stolen cop car, this year’s weekend definitely proved a little tamer. FM’s Roving Reporter popped over to Sunday afternoon’s Activities Fair at the SOCH to catch up with some potential members of the class of 2014, getting them to dish on everything from intense grinding sessions at Jollies to what schools...
Jennifer Sung: She’s really nice, I haven’t seen her much. She’s really into the Korean Association so I think she’s been doing a lot for them. I’ve also been doing my own prefrosh thing...
Harvard undergraduates and prefrosh have more in common than they should. This past Visitas weekend meant the arrival of 1000 excited prospective students and, for many current members of the College, memories of their own similar experience a year or years ago. To prefrosh, Harvard can seem like a confusing place, and not just because of difficulties in navigating the campus...
...individuality exist in tension, for the truly sovereign student does not need the input of his fellow classmates. Harvard, as a result, will tolerate but remain uncomfortable with an approach that emphasizes interdepenence, since collaborative efforts have as their logical prerequisite a common understanding or goal. Prefrosh and students are alike in this respect in that however long students remain on campus, a community of learning never coalesces around a shared pursuit...
...collection of nominally associated individuals can affect powerful change in the world at large, but not the shifts in attitude that would establish collective striving within. Without this last change, community at Harvard will remain up to individuals’ efforts to forge it, For prefrosh and undergraduates alike, membership in the wider Harvard community will remain a nebulous concept...