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...coping at least with the look of college dorms, which potential donors tend to see first, may be to enlist student support. In an experiment in "dormitory democracy," students at the University of Connecticut took over all the lighter maintenance in one older dorm: building walls, painting, waxing, replacing light bulbs. For six years the plan has kept costs down. And giving the students responsibility also has cut back significantly on vandalism...
Seventy-four students in Weld Hall recently signed a petition asking the University to terminate mice which have appeared repeatedly in the dorm...
Your mother told you the day you unpacked the station wagon outside the dorm in the Yard that these would be the greatest years of your life, so enjoy them...
...lived in Jordan W for three semesters so far, more if you count the year. I spent sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms there because I preferred it to my own dorm. Some people have been there almost four years, survivors from the pre-Fox days when freshmen lived at the Quad. Even after that, a couple of freshmen transferred in, virtually unique among their class for escaping both parents and the Yard. Many people there are on the six-year plan of studies: not college and law school but six years as an undergraduate, punctuated by leaves spent...
...many others who shared the "Harvard Experience" circa 1975-79, that the place wasn't worth $7,000. For $7,000 I got second year grad students as teachers, large impersonal lectures, a department famed for its second class status in the Ivy Leagues, bad food, and a terrific dorm room senior year. I was fortunate that there were enough good people, many of whom could just barely afford to come to Harvard, to make the whole thing seem worthwhile, and in the end, a good four years...