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...aware of the hardships [the late move-in date] created for students and their families," said Associate Dean of the College for Human Resources and the House System Thomas A. Dingman...
Much like a high-school reunion, speaking in public and a first junior-high dance, Orientation Week is much better experienced after it is over. The unique combination of anxiety, freedom, novelty, social awkwardness and a new beginning spell nine days (from move-in until the first day of classes) of a terrifyingly mixed blessing. Only now, two years after my first week, do I look back at that time with nostalgia and wistfulness...
...students were able to catch, if not worms, at least their own rooms upon landing in Cambridge last week. Kudos go to house superintendents who were kind enough to accommodate these students not just with bridge housing, but with their own space, saving them the schlep of a double move-in. These superintendents include those in charge of Dunster House, Leverett House, Pforzheimer House and Mather House...
...middle of the week. Such timing just makes it more difficult for students, many with their parents, to travel and re-adjust to the College. Associate Dean of Harvard College for Human Resource and the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 ought to make an earlier move-in date for next year, and work with the house superintendents who better know how to accommodate student needs...
Determined that the fall was simply a minor setback, I arrived on move-in day ready to dive into my Harvard career. However, by the time my crutches and I made it to Tercentenary Theater for opening convocation, I was ready to turn around and give up. In every way, Harvard just seemed so big, a place where, at best, I would anonymously blend in the with the crowd and where, at worst, I would be the slowpoke on crutches who was left behind in every activity...