I was just kidding about that last post. You know I wouldn't return from a three-week absence only to tell you about the weather! (Well ... given my lack of reliability lately, this actually isn't so far-fetched.) Anyway, it's going to be terribly hard trying to summarize what's been one of the most amazing experiences of my life, so I'll be brief. Harvard has been, in five points or less:
- A lot of sweeping the first week. My pre-orientation program was called Fall Clean-Up, i.e. paying naive freshmen to do janitorial work under the guise of "making friends" and "learning more about the campus". Genius!
- Many, many, many amazing people. (Of course!)
- A week of delicious restaurant food (we had to pay for our own meals during FCU), followed by the start of four years of completely average dining hall food.
- Heat. Heat. Heat. If you've followed my Twitter in the past, you may just have unsubscribed yourself last week because the only thing I talked about was the heat. Waking up today without sweat pooled on my body was a positive luxury.
- Classes? What?
I wish I were cool enough to do a photojournal, but the reality is that I pretty much never remember to bring out my camera and as such have the most haphazard collection of photos ever. Here's a sampling, beginning with an original Gutenberg Bible ...
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| This is one of the first 23 books ever printed! |
And followed by a shot of some really great people in Science Center B, which, as we discovered two weeks later, is where I'll be suffering through Life Sciences 1a for the rest of the semester.
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... like we premeds won't be spending enough time in the Science Center as it is.
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Other things I've learned so far? Indian guys are really awesome no matter where you go,
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| From left to right: Rohit, Vish, and Sidd! |
dining hall food will be dining hall food, even if the building you eat in looks like Hogwarts,
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| This is Linxi, one of my suitemates! |
clothing makes for a really good makeshift privacy curtain,
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| Actually, I just ran out of room for my clothes. And yes, I do sleep in there. |
even concrete walls are bearable if you plaster a bunch of couture all over them,
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| Mood lighting! Eyy! |
dinners on Sunday are by far the best meal of the week,
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| SUNDAE SUNDAY! |
it is possible to be totally happy even when it's 99 degrees and you're melting out of your skin,
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| This is Kemie, another of my suitemates! |
people at Harvard know how to keep talking for a
really long time when it's 99 degrees out and you're melting out of your skin,
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| Freshman Convocation. Only at Harvard. |
and ... er ... I'm sorry what POLAR BEAR HAT!
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| I bought this today. I am very ready for winter. |
Some of you may be wondering what Koala's been up to amidst all this. But that, that ... is for the next entry. Until next time!
