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...based on “the fastidious timing of schedules to match with shuttle times” and the fact that “Quad residents must spend 10 or so minutes traveling every time they want to go from their Houses to the Square or the Yard.” Oh, the humanity! Students at universities with truly far-flung campuses, like Arizona or Michigan, probably wouldn’t mind a 10-minute walk or shuttle ride to class. The same goes for commuter students at campuses like Bunker Hill and UMass-Boston. (Harvard has its own tradition...
...make a plan. Now is the time for teamwork, especially if you’re moving from the Yard to the River or—gasp!—the Quad. Keep track of the storage schedule (all of the hours are during the day, so you’ll have to reform your vampiric ways). Figure out who in your rooming group is available to move things when, so no one is left with one hour and seven heavy boxes between the end of exams and flight home...
...look closely, you will find excerpts of Emily Dickinson poems on the front of some of the lighter-colored chairs in the yard. So what's it all about...
...came about as part of the National Poetry Month, and it dovetailed right into the time period when the chairs would be coming back out into the yard," said Sifuentes. He added that Associate Provost of Arts and Culture Lori E. Gross, having heard about his exhibit in the Woodberry Poetry Room, approached him about doing a project to inaugurate National Poetry Month...
...keep on enjoying the weather, don't stress over finals, and in the meantime, check out some of the poems in the yard. And if you want to see more of Sifuentes' work, check out his exhibit in the Lamont Library Poetry Room about artwork responding. Study break, anyone...