Tag: Freshmen

  • Nation & World

    Voicing their differences

    The student group 21 Colorful Crimson performs a mix of covers and originals, with hopes of eventually recording an album of their own material.

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    It’s Housing Day, with snowballs

    As nor’easter slackens, Harvard freshmen throng the Yard after learning where they’ll live next, all part of the annual Housing Day.

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    Get sorted

    It’s Housing Day 2017 at Harvard, first with dorm assignments, and then with revelry.

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    Some advice for freshmen

    A Harvard College sophomore tells freshmen what he knows, and ponders what he’s learned in the last year.

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    For freshmen, food for thought

    Campus food experts say the first year in college is a time for change at the dining table as well as in the classroom.

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    New ‘startup’ grants

    For incoming freshmen to Harvard College’s Class of 2020, ‘start-up’ grants will help ease the pressures of everyday expenses.

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    Hearty welcomes with a touch of rivalry

    Every House is best: The Class of 2019 learns their housing fate.

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    First, you move in

    Harvard’s freshmen arrived on campus Tuesday, and started settling in to college life, and new routines.

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    Welcoming Harvard’s next class

    A freshman returns to Visitas, the annual weekend focused on incoming Harvard College students, and views their weekend through fresh eyes.

    4 minutes
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    Goodbye parents, hello Yard!

    Parents’ emotions range from joy to wistfulness as Harvard students part from them to begin the new school year.

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    Biases that can blind us

    Psychology Professor Mahzarin Banaji gave incoming members of Harvard’s Class of 2017 a tour of their own biases, helping to raise awareness that can help them avoid making decisions based on unconscious preferences.

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    Goodbye tourists, hello residents

    As the Class of 2017 settled in at Harvard and began Freshman Week, students from around the world were busy taking in the unfamiliar sights and sounds of their tightly packed, red-brick neighborhood, their home base for the next four years.

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    Boxes, bins, and bedding

    Harvard Yard began to come alive again Monday morning as the Class of 2017 arrived on campus.

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    Eat, play, sleep

    As freshmen move into dorms in and around the Yard, fellow students, faculty, and administrators offer their advice on how best to adjust to the Harvard experience. Their suggestions range from maintaining basic wellness to making sure to have fun.

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    Provost’s other hat: Teacher

    As provost, Alan Garber spends his days tackling Harvard’s administrative concerns. This semester, he has stepped back into his old role as a teacher, leading a freshman seminar on health care policy that has given him a fresh take on the University he helps lead.

    4 minutes
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    Digging the Yard work at Harvard

    For the second consecutive year, Harvard’s landscaping staff brought trees, shrubs, boxes of bulbs, and a new bench to Harvard Yard. With their help, students, proctors, and administrators transformed the space into a more inviting setting.

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    A warm welcome, and a challenge

    Forced indoors by rain, College freshmen gathered in Sanders Theatre and the Memorial Church to become formal members of the Class of 2016 at Harvard’s annual convocation.

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    Welcoming service

    Rising sophomores are connecting with each other, their new House, and the community this spring through Harvard College Serves (HCS). Launched this year by the College Events Board, HCS joins incoming freshmen with House public service student representatives and public service tutors for volunteer projects at area nonprofits.

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    University leaders welcome freshmen

    Harvard’s annual convocation ceremony gives members of the Class of 2015 their first taste of the University’s history and traditions.

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    Connecting with freshmen

    Harvard College freshmen got their first taste Aug. 26 of the world of ideas awaiting them over the next four years in a talk by Professor Nicholas Christakis, who delivered the 2011 Opening Days Lecture, “Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.”

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    Hammonds greets Class of 2015

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds welcomed members of the Class of 2015 to campus during a session at Sanders Theatre.

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    On the go

    Freshmen Morgan Powell and Mariah Pewarski balance schoolwork with playing two sports — and wouldn’t have it any other way.

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    A program of exploration

    Freshman seminars connect students with new subjects and star faculty.

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    First-Year Outdoor Program

    Harvard programs help incoming freshmen to get into the flow.

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    Stepping into action

    Harvard’s pre-orientation programs point incoming freshmen to the city, the country, and the campus in an effort to give students a head start on adjusting to college life by building community through the outdoors, the arts, and more.

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    Making the big move

    Families arrive at Harvard to move their students into dorms for the start of the fall semester.

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    A family welcome

    College Dean Evelynn Hammonds welcomes families of the Class of 2014 to campus.

    5 minutes
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    A la carte for freshmen

    Advising Fortnight sessions help freshmen to determine their passions, as they survey many academic areas in choosing their concentrations.

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    Annenberg Hall by the numbers

    Annenberg Hall, arguably the most extraordinary 9,000 square feet on Harvard’s campus, has served since 1874 as a gathering place, dance hall, Commencement location, reception venue, exam hall, and, since 1994, as the dining hall reserved for freshmen in Harvard College.

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    Move-in Day

    Harvard Rituals, a view into traditions across the University.

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