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...Culture shock...
...culture shock. I didn't grow up in Massachusetts, you see. I didn't go to pre-college school in the Northeast. My friends from high school, for the most part, didn't go to Vassar and Wellesley or Dartmouth. Before coming to Harvard, I had never even seen crew, much less understood the significance of the term "The Head of the Charles...
...still remember my sense of utter shock and bewilderment during my first few weeks here. I see it in the pictures taken my first few months here. I see it in my journal entries dated September and October, 1992. And I saw it the other day in hundreds of faces streaming out of Memorial Hall following summer school registration...
When does the culture shock end? It doesn't really. You'll go home and readjust, but if you come back the process starts over again...
After a while, though, you'll enjoy it. Instead of a feeling of confusion, you'll have a feeling of newness, of rediscovery. You'll look forward to the culture shock as a break from normal life, a time to notice things you normally take for granted or pass...