Word: ucla
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...make one question how thankful we should all truly be to attend Harvard. Thankfully (no pun intended), the five and a half hour flight back from California gave me just enough time to compile a list of reasons I’m glad I transferred to Harvard from UCLA. Below are a few of my favorites (and the five and a half hour flight isn’t one of them...
Despite being recruited by high profile programs such as Oregon, UCLA, and USC, Harris decided in the fall of his post-graduate year that Harvard was where he wanted...
...floor with our mouths hanging open for about 30 seconds as we tried to assure ourselves of that). Was this, I wondered, the social life I was to expect for the next three years? For a brief moment, I considered packing my bags and running back to UCLA. I think it is likely that even non-transfer students have considered doing something similar at some point in their Harvard career...
...talking of those houses one might confuse as pretentious fraternities—final clubs. Even more shocking than my first experience of a dorm party was my first experience at a final club. To explain why, let me recount a story of fraternity rush week my freshman year at UCLA. Parallel to the many complaints that final clubs receive about unfair perks exclusive to men, the girls at UCLA protested as frats found new and exciting ways to persuade men to join while the sororities had a strict “lemon-water only” policy. What...
...face ivy-rival Princeton in its first match. Though Harvard (10-12) will enter the game as the underdog against the Tigers (18-9), if the Crimson can maintain ball control, it has a chance to upset the same team that made it to the national championship game against UCLA last year. Each team brings different strengths to the match. Princeton, the defending Eastern Champions, are much speedier in the water and have one of the fastest players on the east coast on the team. The team lost its stellar goalie from last year, but otherwise, the Tigers are still...