Word: upperclasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Upperclass students already seem more accepting of me as an equal now that I have a house assignment. Knowing our houses will greatly affect the rest of the year. Even my parents are into it. My mom wanted to drive by Kirkland when she picked me up for spring break and has already read the Kirkland facebook cover to cover. It is nice that she now knows the biographies of all the resident tutors, but it is also noteworthy that she hasn't spoken with or heard about my proctor in months. Even she had forgotten that it was still...
...Lastly, get to know everyone you meet from Cabot K. The last party they threw was by far the biggest and best I've seen at Harvard. My friends and I estimated that one out of six upperclass students was there...
...first class to enter a fully-randomized House system next year, none of us have any memory of "what it used to be like." Since there was nothing to judge it by. we have accepted randomization as neither good nor bad, but rather as the way things worked. Upperclass students tell us stories from the days that houses were different--they tell us that Currier was for parties and that Adams was for weirdos. And though we listen, skeptical of their ability to characterize an entire House with a single adjective, none of us really cares. Whether...
...days ago, I had an interesting conversation with an upperclass student. "So which House do you want to live in next year?" he casually asked me. "Oh, I don't know," I replied, equally casually...
...regarding the housing assignment process with this kind of ambivalence, we limit the role of the upperclass House to a physical presence which exists for the sake of convenience. This should not be the case. Houses, especially in the University context, are supposed to transcend their mere physical presence by promoting a more cohesive sense of community and interaction. We are no strangers to this theme; it was, after all, repeated again and again at the race forum held last week...