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23 lines
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#college/visit
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- Campus
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- overall very nice, lots of brick buildings
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- Mostly in one place in Boston, feels like a cohesive campus
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- Pretty big
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- Lots of food and store options around campus
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- Very cold; lots of snow
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- Plenty of dorm rooms, 98% of students live on campus all 4 years
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- Right next to Boston downtown, but doesn’t feel right in the city
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- can eat in dining halls, but there are good restaurants nearby
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- House System
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- Every student is sorted into one of 12 houses March of freshmen year
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- Each house lives in their own building, and different houses have different things in buildings (ceramics studio and rock climbing wall)
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- can choose up to 8 people to block with and and group is all put into one house together
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- Sorting is mostly just random
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- All freshmen stay in same place and eat in same hall until they are sorted
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- Can still use amenities from other houses
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- Info session focused a lot on the network and support at Harvard
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- Every student gets three advisors to help them
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- Able to take classes at [[MIT 2-21-25|MIT]]
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- Very close, ~20-30min walk
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- Massive alumni network |