Word: transferals
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...late start of one or two years makes it almost inevitable that transfer students will be viewed as somewhat outside the Harvard mainstream. The University's ridiculous housing policy makes it completely inevitable...
...transfer students never lived in the Yard, never grew to loathe expos, never took a freshman seminar. We never even got to throw butter on the ceiling of the Union (I was especially sorry to miss that...
...Most transfer students do a few of these things--and others--thank you very much. But missing freshman and sometimes sophomore year makes it uniquely challenging to get some of Harvard's requisite exceptional experiences. The housing situation makes it hard for transfers to meet people, and that makes it doubly important for transfers to participate in some extracurricular activity. And, of course, participation in the groups that make it possible to have meals with someone besides a roommate is particularly intimidating for those just arriving at Harvard...
...WHEN TRANSFERS are the subjects of intense interest from their fellow students it is too often a clinical interest. What is it about a student who would transfer schools that makes it impossible for him to be satisfied? How can anyone be critical enough to be miserable enough to leave his college...
Most of a transfer's first conversations here go a lot like this: You're a transfer student? From where? Why'd you transfer? Do you like it here? A friend of mine was asked these questions so often that he put his responses down on notecards and held up the right ones when conversation became too predictable...