Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passive attitude. I would live in Currier for a year and see if I would learn to like it. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad and I would come to appreciate Currier as "my house." If things didn't work out, I was told, I could always transfer to a different house at the end of the year. This seemed like a fair proposal...
...miserable in our environment. We had given it our best shot, but we knew that in order to maintain our sanity, we had to get out. Each of us had come to identify with other houses over the year, so we agreed to go our own ways. We would transfer in small groups...
...turned out, some friends, were "lucky," while others will be left alone in the Quad next year (victims of chance). One friends will take a term off and try to transfer to another university. Why stay at a school that has no respect for you as a person and treats you like an object? Why stay with only the random hope of getting lucky next time...
...ludicrous nature of the housing system is even more pronounced in my situation. I was not allowed to transfer, despite the fact that I will not be at Harvard next year. I had wanted to shift my house affiliation so that I could return during my senior year to a house which I liked...
Only four percent of returning students areallowed to transfer inter-house, said CollegeHousing Officer Catherine M. Millett, so eachHouse sets a cap on the number of students it willadmit...