Word: raves
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Caroline E. Jackson ’06 has nothing but rave reviews for her Apley Court triple, bragging, “When you walk inside, you don’t feel like you’re inside. It feels nice and spacious.” With its gilded staircases, claw-foot bathtubs and predominance of marble, Apley is widely considered to be the cream of the first-year housing—especially by those poor souls residing in the skim milk of first-year housing. Apley’s shell sconces over the water fountains, oaken moldings straight...
Ever-vigilant about hair removal, Harvard’s princesses rave about Pure Line on JFK Street for eyebrow waxing, while others trek to Dellaria in Kenmore Square for the arch wonders of Danielle. Teresa at Le Pli is also a favorite. While some expressed doubt about Ricki’s and Sasha’s, one veteran insists that Lena at Sasha’s has the “best, fastest and most painless Brazilian wax ever.” FM will take her word...
Study abroad, like so many other experiences in college, is what one makes of it. The students abroad who spend their semester in a “four month drunken rave,” probably don’t act so differently at home. Podolsky holds in high regard Harvard’s “distinguished faculty” and “rigorous classes” but far underestimates its students. The assumption that easing bureaucratic restrictions on study abroad will lead to drunken raving around the world is simply unfair...
...stringent rules governing study abroad were made for a good reason: that most study abroad programs are taught by faculty far less distinguished than Harvard’s, offer classes far less rigorous than Harvard’s and essentially consist of a four month drunken rave through a European (or Asian, or Latin American) city...
...allowed to use athletic department facilities—with only 8 treadmills, 10 elliptical trainers and a bunch of exercise bikes and Stairmasters. By contrast, Yale has an eight-story athletic complex with a 13,000 square foot cardio and weight-training space dedicated to recreational use. Students there rave that their facility is “better than Gold’s Gym,” and speak about “a serious pride in Yale’s athletic facilities...