Word: light
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...apprehensive about leaving home for a college that is this far away, learn instead to look forward to your next return when you will be able to see your familiar settings in a refreshed light. That way, not only will you enjoy immersing yourself in your new environment over your first year, you will also come to appreciate what your new experience teaches you about your old surroundings...
...through your first year and find your place on campus, you can look forward to seeing your home in a new light upon your next return. As is often pointed out, it takes a trip away to make you appreciate what you once found familiar. If you are coming to Harvard from the West coast or overseas, you will learn to appreciate those old friends who make an effort to stay in touch, who take the time to check in with you and to update you on all the latest happenings back home. As visits home appear scarce, you will...
...dorm, and Annenberg, and what did I think of the place--not too much, but enough so that I talked and felt witty and knowledgeable, an insider on my first day. Everything impressed me: the vintage hexagonal tiles in their bathroom, the working fireplace, the slant of the light, Andre's chic black shoes (that year I told my mother, only half-joking, that I had to have black Kenneth Cole boots if I wanted to survive in the gay social scene at Harvard). Mostly I was impressed by Andre and Dave. I was openly, adamantly gay at my high...
...Dave, Andre and their friends have graduated. A senior now, I look at my first-year self in his Kenneth Cole boots and think: I was so young, younger than I ever realized. The afternoon light in the Eliot House courtyard seems to glimmer from the other end of the world...
...Some prioritize academics, others extracurriculars. Many students party until 3 a.m., others study until that time. I write this piece knowing that my 800 words or so of advice will not apply to everyone. Even so, here are a few anecdotes about my first year that may shed some light on that which is affectionately, and sometimes not so affectionately, known as Harvard College...