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...older students, move-in has always been decidedly less exciting. With their roommates known well in advance, upperclassmen arrive at their Houses knowing exactly with whom they will eat and spend their time: their blockmates. Despite living in an incredibly diverse House community among the most brilliant young people on earth, most upperclassmen will not have met a single new person in the last two weeks. The reason is a simple one; Harvards system of blocking divides its student body in a way that makes it all but impossible for Houses to do their...
...campus. The response from many, including this page, was dismay. Calls for what was has become known as Yale-style housing were ridiculed as foolish and counterproductive. The scheme, many claimed, would deprive freshmen of their right to choose the group of friends with whom they would live as upperclassmen. Class unity would be jeopardized, and those freshmen assigned to Quad houses would spend their entire first years in a state of profound depression, dreading the move up Garden Sreet...
...this campus. Students from a remarkable diversity of backgrounds live in close contact with one another. They share a library, a dining hall, and common spaces. Why then is it that Harvard allows its student body to segregate itself into small, insular groups even before arriving in its Houses? Upperclassmen have no reason or incentive to venture out of their blocking groups to interact with their Housemates and, as a consequence, few do. As a result, Houses remain divided among blocking group lines and the diverse communities, which could be such a crucial part of the Harvard College experience...
...team dynamic is one reason why the Crimson played so well this weekend. On the first day, no one was playing as well as they knew they could, but everyone had fun and remained optimistic. The freshmen kept pace with the upperclassmen and helped the team rise from 8th to 3rd place...
...most disappointing classes I have taken at Harvard. I enrolled hoping for an opportunity to understand the historical foundation of the modern periods that I study, but instead found a disorganized course that watered down 2,000 years of the past into an unrecognizable mess.” Most upperclassmen also perceive that the ideals on which History 10a is predicated are bankrupt: the very pretense to isolate a history of the West is artificial and does not reflect the many complicated intercultural interactions that the course’s professors themselves admit have been central. The course in general...