101 Reasons to go to Harvard

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>^^ of course--oh wait, Stanford already is. haha :)</p>

122

<p>Shanghai Uni rankings say harvard and stanford are tied for first. Sounds ideal and inb4uproaroverresearch-focusedrankingshurtingyalelolz</p>

123

<p>I love how there are about 10 variations of the theme, "because it's harvard" on that list...</p>

124

<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O'Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude....love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um... because along with all of these, it's actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ememhall/images2/annen1.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li>
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ememhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li>
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN "THE GAME"!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you "go to a school in Boston")</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it's Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio's (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, "Sorry I have to miss class next week. I'm getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though."</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President's Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won't do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom's!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don't feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say "George Washington's pet pheasant?!")</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href="http://www.dins.com/main/music;%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a> McDonald's Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat...I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard's Gentleman's grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it's not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND---></li>
<li>Because of the "3 Things to do before graduation" are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
</ol>

125

<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>Because Bush didn’t graduate from Harvard</li>
</ol>

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<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>Because Bush didn’t graduate from Harvard</li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
</ol>

127

<p>Bush did graduate from HBS, for what it’s worth…</p>

128

<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>Because Bush didn’t graduate from Harvard</li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
<li>Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard</li>
</ol>

129

<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>Because Bush didn’t graduate from Harvard</li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
<li>Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard </li>
<li>Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW)</li>
</ol>

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<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>Because Bush didn’t graduate from Harvard</li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
<li>Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard </li>
<li>Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW) </li>
<li>chess club, is it too lame? lol</li>
</ol>

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<p>90.learn economics from noble laureate dr.Amartya Sen.
n be a part of the world’s most prestigious university</p>

132

<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>Because Bush didn’t graduate from Harvard</li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
<li>Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard </li>
<li>Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW) </li>
<li>chess club, is it too lame? lol</li>
<li>because anywhere else, you have to say, “i go to ____…it’s actually a pretty good school.”</li>
</ol>

133

<p>And I’ll leave 101 up for some lucky fellow. xxxx (mwl - 2.19.2009) –>

  1. Cambridge/Boston
  2. Prestige
  3. best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)
  4. Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)
  5. duh, Elle Woods went there
  6. I look darn good in crimson
  7. You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true
  8. Conan O’Brien
  9. The people.
  10. The exposure/different opportunities.
  11. The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)
  12. Natalie Portman, lol
  13. New England attitude…love it!
  14. PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.
  15. Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?
  16. The House system
  17. Connections
  18. Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
  19. Math 55
  20. Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did
  21. Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)
  22. work hard play hard mentality
  23. Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience
  24. The Harvard Lampoon
  25. For the Money (for the presence and future).
  26. LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!
  27. Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
  28. To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in
  29. The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004
  30. The Hasty Pudding Awards
  31. >>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT
  32. Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)
  33. Adams House
  34. Prof. Dan Gilbert
  35. natalie portman gets a second vote
  36. Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!
  37. beautiful campus
  38. the Crimson
  39. Primal Scream
  40. The IOP
  41. the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie
  42. Harvard University Band
  43. Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.
  44. The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week
  45. Because it’s Harvard!
  46. Prof. Robert Langton
  47. The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year
  48. The many a capella singing groups
  49. The Head of the Charles
  50. Its a good back up.
  51. Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)
  52. When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”
  53. Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.
  54. Because you managed to get in!
  55. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
  56. FOP
  57. Because it rhymes with success
  58. awesome commencement guest speakers
  59. clam chowder
  60. Cause second best just won’t do
  61. HARVARD SOCCER
  62. forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D
  63. Cross register courses at MIT.
  64. All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!
  65. The Diversity
  66. Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.
  67. Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)
  68. Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)
  69. Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)
  70. Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)
  71. Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!
  72. I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!
  73. The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!
  74. Because Rivers Cuomo went there.
  75. Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.
  76. Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.
  77. Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions
  78. Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)
  79. Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—>
  80. Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.
  81. Philip Streich class of 2013
  82. Lou Dobbs went there
  83. The Boston THREE PARTY
  84. Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School
  85. Because Bush didn’t graduate from Harvard
  86. YO-YO MA!
  87. Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard
  88. Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW)
  89. chess club, is it too lame? lol
  90. because anywhere else, you have to say, “i go to ____…it’s actually a pretty good school.”
  91. Rivalry with Yale
  92. Freezing Boston weather
  93. Within a short vicinity of MIT
  94. Au Bon Pain
  95. The Co-Op
  96. Harvard Forensics Tournament
  97. Quincy Market
  98. Peeing on John Harvard
  99. The atmosphere
  100. Saying “Hahvahd Yahd”</p>

<p>And I’ll leave 101 up for some lucky fellow.</p>

134

<p>i won’t steal the last one…but enough with the prestige already! there are so many amazing things about harvard other than its name!</p>

135

<p>And I’ll leave 101 up for some lucky fellow. xxxx (mwl - 2.19.2009) –>

  1. Cambridge/Boston
  2. Prestige
  3. best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)
  4. Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)
  5. duh, Elle Woods went there
  6. I look darn good in crimson
  7. You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true
  8. Conan O’Brien
  9. The people.
  10. The exposure/different opportunities.
  11. The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)
  12. Natalie Portman, lol
  13. New England attitude…love it!
  14. PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.
  15. Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?
  16. The House system
  17. Connections
  18. Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
  19. Math 55
  20. Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did
  21. Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)
  22. work hard play hard mentality
  23. Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience
  24. The Harvard Lampoon
  25. For the Money (for the presence and future).
  26. LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!
  27. Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
  28. To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in
  29. The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004
  30. The Hasty Pudding Awards
  31. >>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT
  32. Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)
  33. Adams House
  34. Prof. Dan Gilbert
  35. natalie portman gets a second vote
  36. Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!
  37. beautiful campus
  38. the Crimson
  39. Primal Scream
  40. The IOP
  41. the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie
  42. Harvard University Band
  43. Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.
  44. The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week
  45. Because it’s Harvard!
  46. Prof. Robert Langton
  47. The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year
  48. The many a capella singing groups
  49. The Head of the Charles
  50. Its a good back up.
  51. Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)
  52. When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”
  53. Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.
  54. Because you managed to get in!
  55. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
  56. FOP
  57. Because it rhymes with success
  58. awesome commencement guest speakers
  59. clam chowder
  60. Cause second best just won’t do
  61. HARVARD SOCCER
  62. forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D
  63. Cross register courses at MIT.
  64. All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!
  65. The Diversity
  66. Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.
  67. Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)
  68. Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)
  69. Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)
  70. Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)
  71. Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!
  72. I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!
  73. The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!
  74. Because Rivers Cuomo went there.
  75. Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.
  76. Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.
  77. Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions
  78. Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)
  79. Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—>
  80. Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.
  81. Philip Streich class of 2013
  82. Lou Dobbs went there
  83. The Boston THREE PARTY
  84. Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School
  85. All the conversations you’ll have!
  86. YO-YO MA!
  87. Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard
  88. Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW)
  89. chess club, is it too lame? lol
  90. because anywhere else, you have to say, “i go to ____…it’s actually a pretty good school.”
  91. Rivalry with Yale
  92. Freezing Boston weather
  93. Within a short vicinity of MIT
  94. Au Bon Pain
  95. The Co-Op
  96. Harvard Forensics Tournament
  97. Quincy Market
  98. Peeing on John Harvard
  99. The atmosphere
  100. Saying “Hahvahd Yahd”
  101. Inspirational alumni like George W, the Unabomber and Patrick Bateman. </p>

<p>(And I’ve replaced 85, because George Bush did, in fact, graduate from Harvard, as we all know.)</p>

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<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>All the conversations you’ll have! </li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
<li>Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard</li>
<li>Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW)</li>
<li>chess club, is it too lame? lol</li>
<li>because anywhere else, you have to say, “i go to ____…it’s actually a pretty good school.”</li>
<li>Rivalry with Yale</li>
<li>Freezing Boston weather</li>
<li>Within a short vicinity of MIT</li>
<li>Au Bon Pain</li>
<li>The Co-Op</li>
<li>Harvard Forensics Tournament</li>
<li>Quincy Market</li>
<li>Peeing on John Harvard</li>
<li>The atmosphere</li>
<li>Saying “Hahvahd Yahd”</li>
<li>Inspirational alumni like George W, the Unabomber and Patrick Bateman. </li>
<li> To surround yourself with greatness and hope it rubs off</li>
<li> To escape all those dumb jerks you had to go to high school with, a hundred of whom will go to the local univ. you could have attended instead.</li>
</ol>

137

<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>All the conversations you’ll have!</li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
<li>Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard</li>
<li>Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW)</li>
<li>chess club, is it too lame? lol</li>
<li>because anywhere else, you have to say, “i go to ____…it’s actually a pretty good school.”</li>
<li>Rivalry with Yale</li>
<li>Freezing Boston weather</li>
<li>Within a short vicinity of MIT</li>
<li>Au Bon Pain</li>
<li>The Co-Op</li>
<li>Harvard Forensics Tournament</li>
<li>Quincy Market</li>
<li>Peeing on John Harvard</li>
<li>The atmosphere</li>
<li>Saying “Hahvahd Yahd”</li>
<li>Inspirational alumni like George W, the Unabomber and Patrick Bateman.</li>
<li>To surround yourself with greatness and hope it rubs off</li>
<li>To escape all those dumb jerks you had to go to high school with, a hundred of whom will go to the local univ. you could have attended instead. </li>
<li>To win a Nobel Prize</li>
</ol>

138

<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>Memorial Hall;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>All the conversations you’ll have!</li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
<li>Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard</li>
<li>Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW)</li>
<li>chess club, is it too lame? lol</li>
<li>because anywhere else, you have to say, “i go to ____…it’s actually a pretty good school.”</li>
<li>Rivalry with Yale</li>
<li>Freezing Boston weather</li>
<li>Within a short vicinity of MIT</li>
<li>Au Bon Pain</li>
<li>The Co-Op</li>
<li>Harvard Forensics Tournament</li>
<li>Quincy Market</li>
<li>Peeing on John Harvard</li>
<li>The atmosphere</li>
<li>Saying “Hahvahd Yahd”</li>
<li>Inspirational alumni like George W, the Unabomber and Patrick Bateman.</li>
<li>To surround yourself with greatness and hope it rubs off</li>
<li>To escape all those dumb jerks you had to go to high school with, a hundred of whom will go to the local univ. you could have attended instead. </li>
<li>To win a Nobel Prize</li>
<li>AMAZING Biomedical research facilities</li>
</ol>

139

<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>All the conversations you’ll have!</li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
<li>Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard</li>
<li>Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW)</li>
<li>chess club, is it too lame? lol</li>
<li>because anywhere else, you have to say, “i go to ____…it’s actually a pretty good school.”</li>
<li>Rivalry with Yale</li>
<li>Freezing Boston weather</li>
<li>Within a short vicinity of MIT</li>
<li>Au Bon Pain</li>
<li>The Co-Op</li>
<li>Harvard Forensics Tournament</li>
<li>Quincy Market</li>
<li>Peeing on John Harvard</li>
<li>The atmosphere</li>
<li>Saying “Hahvahd Yahd”</li>
<li>Inspirational alumni like George W, the Unabomber and Patrick Bateman.</li>
<li>To surround yourself with greatness and hope it rubs off</li>
<li>To escape all those dumb jerks you had to go to high school with, a hundred of whom will go to the local univ. you could have attended instead. </li>
<li>To win a Nobel Prize</li>
<li>AMAZING Biomedical research facilities </li>
<li>Woodberry Poetry Reading Room</li>
<li>WIGGLESWORTH BABY!!!</li>
<li>Science Center 24/7 pretzel parties</li>
</ol>

140

<ol>
<li>Cambridge/Boston</li>
<li>Prestige</li>
<li>best for South Asian Studies and Sanskrit (my personal reasons)</li>
<li>Awesome Ivy League goodness (1st college in America)</li>
<li>duh, Elle Woods went there</li>
<li>I look darn good in crimson</li>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
<li>Conan O’Brien</li>
<li>The people.</li>
<li>The exposure/different opportunities.</li>
<li>The fact that you can do ANYTHING here. Literally. (Providing that you can find time in what is guaranteed to be a rather packed schedule for most people.)</li>
<li>Natalie Portman, lol</li>
<li>New England attitude…love it!</li>
<li>PHENOMENAL art museums right on campus.</li>
<li>Um… because along with all of these, it’s actually a pretty good college?</li>
<li>The House system</li>
<li>Connections</li>
<li>Annenberg Hall: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg[/url]”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
<li>Math 55</li>
<li>Living in the same dorm that John Adams and John Quincy Adams did</li>
<li>Roland Fryer (Prof. in Economics Dept)</li>
<li>work hard play hard mentality</li>
<li>Opportunities for an Edward Gorey experience</li>
<li>The Harvard Lampoon</li>
<li>For the Money (for the presence and future).</li>
<li>LIBRARIES! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! OLD BOOKS! ANCIENT BOOKS!</li>
<li>Sanders Theater: <a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
<li>To actually park your car in Harvard Yard the day you move in</li>
<li>The incredible glass flower exhibit:The Fragile Beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers, The Journal of Antiques & Collectibles Feature Article February 2004</li>
<li>The Hasty Pudding Awards</li>
<li>>>>>>>>>>>>TO BEAT YALE IN “THE GAME”!!<<<<<<<<<< WOOT</li>
<li>Dropping the H-Bomb (except really you “go to a school in Boston”)</li>
<li>Adams House</li>
<li>Prof. Dan Gilbert</li>
<li>natalie portman gets a second vote</li>
<li>Just to be able to actually write A.B (Harvard) on my resume for real!</li>
<li>beautiful campus</li>
<li>the Crimson</li>
<li>Primal Scream</li>
<li>The IOP</li>
<li>the annenberg hall looks like something from a harry potter movie</li>
<li>Harvard University Band</li>
<li>Great Arabic program, as far as I can tell.</li>
<li>The constant flow of amazing and famous guest speakers every week</li>
<li>Because it’s Harvard!</li>
<li>Prof. Robert Langton</li>
<li>The hilarious IgNobel Prize ceremony every year</li>
<li>The many a capella singing groups</li>
<li>The Head of the Charles</li>
<li>Its a good back up.</li>
<li>Pinnochio’s (best pizza place in New England)</li>
<li>When your professor says, “Sorry I have to miss class next week. I’m getting a Nobel Prize in Physics. You guys will have a guest lecturer though.”</li>
<li>Larry Summers dancing with Elisa New at the President’s Study Break over reading period.</li>
<li>Because you managed to get in!</li>
<li>The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra</li>
<li>FOP</li>
<li>Because it rhymes with success</li>
<li>awesome commencement guest speakers</li>
<li>clam chowder</li>
<li>Cause second best just won’t do</li>
<li>HARVARD SOCCER</li>
<li>forget that, how about HARVARD FENCING, 1st place last year! =D</li>
<li>Cross register courses at MIT.</li>
<li>All those great restaurants in N. Boston especially Dom’s!</li>
<li>The Diversity</li>
<li>Knowing that when you go there, you WILL become something, even if you don’t feel it now.</li>
<li>Museum of Natural History (Can you say “George Washington’s pet pheasant?!”)</li>
<li>Harvard Din & Tonics (<a href=“http://www.dins.com/main/music;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;&lt;/a&gt; McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just <em>begging</em> to be discovered!)</li>
<li>Cross-registering with MIT (a repeat…I know)</li>
<li>Who doesn’t want to dress up as a colonial American man for all of the football games?!</li>
<li>I can slack off but still maintain a B average thanks to Harvard’s Gentleman’s grades policy!</li>
<li>The Harvard Figure Skating Club!!!</li>
<li>Because Rivers Cuomo went there.</li>
<li>Being able to cross register with MIT and take a linguistics class with Noam Chomsky.</li>
<li>Because you can talk for literally years about the reasons to go to Harvard.</li>
<li>Because you had to sell your soul just to scrape by admissions</li>
<li>Because it’s not to far from RI (yay.)</li>
<li>Because I just came up with a killer idea for Primal Scream! AND—></li>
<li>Because of the “3 Things to do before graduation” are awesome.</li>
<li>Philip Streich class of 2013</li>
<li>Lou Dobbs went there</li>
<li>The Boston THREE PARTY</li>
<li>Because Obama graduated for Harvard Law School</li>
<li>All the conversations you’ll have!</li>
<li>YO-YO MA!</li>
<li>Because of the reaction you get when you tell people you’re going to Harvard</li>
<li>Prof. Jeffrey Miron (LIBERTARIAN ECONOMICS FTW)</li>
<li>chess club, is it too lame? lol</li>
<li>because anywhere else, you have to say, “i go to ____…it’s actually a pretty good school.”</li>
<li>Rivalry with Yale</li>
<li>Freezing Boston weather</li>
<li>Within a short vicinity of MIT</li>
<li>Au Bon Pain</li>
<li>The Co-Op</li>
<li>Harvard Forensics Tournament</li>
<li>Quincy Market</li>
<li>Peeing on John Harvard</li>
<li>The atmosphere</li>
<li>Saying “Hahvahd Yahd”</li>
<li>Inspirational alumni like George W, the Unabomber and Patrick Bateman.</li>
<li>To surround yourself with greatness and hope it rubs off</li>
<li>To escape all those dumb jerks you had to go to high school with, a hundred of whom will go to the local univ. you could have attended instead.</li>
<li>To win a Nobel Prize</li>
<li>AMAZING Biomedical research facilities</li>
<li>Woodberry Poetry Reading Room</li>
<li>WIGGLESWORTH BABY!!!</li>
<li>Science Center 24/7 pretzel parties</li>
<li>To take contracts with that son of a ***** Kingsfield</li>
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