101 Reasons to go to Harvard

keasley1 · October 21, 2009, 10:15pm

i don’t actually know if i want to go to harvard. that whole “beautiful campus” thing seems wrong… it looked kinda worn down when i saw it (granted it’s like the oldest university in the US… lol) but seriously, is the campus really that nice?

john16 · October 25, 2009, 8:06pm

<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</a></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/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg[/url]”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/sanaudg.jpg</a></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;[/url]”>http://www.dins.com/main/music;</a> McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just begging 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>
<li>OBAMA WENT TO HARVARD!!!</li>
</ol>

john16 · October 25, 2009, 8:07pm

And yeah, the campus is THAT nice.

orange_peel · February 24, 2010, 1:36pm

<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;</a> McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just begging 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>
<li>OBAMA WENT TO HARVARD!!! </li>
<li>You can say **** YOU to all the people who made fun of you in high school</li>
</ol>

Dark_Angel_1 · February 25, 2010, 1:32pm

<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;</a> McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just begging 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>
<li>OBAMA WENT TO HARVARD!!! </li>
<li>You can say **** YOU to all the people who made fun of you in high school</li>
<li>Coz i wanted to lol at 111.</li>
</ol>

Browniebaker · February 25, 2010, 2:49pm

<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;</a> McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just begging 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>
<li>OBAMA WENT TO HARVARD!!! </li>
<li>You can say **** YOU to all the people who made fun of you in high school</li>
<li>Coz i wanted to lol at 111.</li>
<li>The spring balls at the houses.</li>
<li>The walk down garden street in springtime.</li>
<li>The dining halls.</li>
<li>The walk along the Charles River.</li>
<li>Harvard Square never sleeps.</li>
<li>The chess master in front of Au Bon Pain.</li>
<li>The Harvard-Yenching Library.</li>
<li>Commencement.</li>
<li>Reunions forever!</li>
<li>Legacy status for your kids.</li>
</ol>

I could go on and on.

By the way, neither George W. Bush (Yale) not Barack Obama (Columbia) went to Harvard. Bush went to the business school at Harvard and Obama to the law school, but that’s not what is meant when you say “went to Harvard,” which refers to the college.

OldWell · February 25, 2010, 6:55pm

“103. 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.”

What a silly statement. That’s the exact same type of generalization as saying all Harvard students are wealthy pricks from New England prep schools. Neither one is true.

But you might want to disregard my statements. I go to a state university… Ah, writing a coherent sentence was just so DIFFICULT for me! :)

Beretta9mm · February 25, 2010, 7:12pm

<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;</a> McDonald’s Girl)</li>
<li>Harvard Forest (just think of all the microfauna just begging 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>
<li>OBAMA WENT TO HARVARD!!! </li>
<li>You can say **** YOU to all the people who made fun of you in high school</li>
<li>Coz i wanted to lol at 111.</li>
<li>The spring balls at the houses.</li>
<li>The walk down garden street in springtime.</li>
<li>The dining halls.</li>
<li>The walk along the Charles River.</li>
<li>Harvard Square never sleeps.</li>
<li>The chess master in front of Au Bon Pain.</li>
<li>The Harvard-Yenching Library.</li>
<li>Commencement.</li>
<li>Reunions forever!</li>
<li>Legacy status for your kids.</li>
<li>Gets you away from your HS’s 2.0 GPA idiots who think they’re smart as hell.</li>
</ol>

sirquixote · February 25, 2010, 7:35pm

No me jodan.

natim1 · April 7, 2010, 4:05pm

question about #22. Is it true? Work hard play hard?

just_forget_me · April 7, 2010, 4:57pm

For me (and my friends)? Yes, most definitely.

For everyone? No… there are definitely some that just work hard, and some that just play hard (believe it or not!), but I think it’s a pretty common mentality.

natim1 · April 7, 2010, 8:33pm

Okay, another worry of mine. I’m finding a lot of the people on the facebook class of 2014 group annoying. You know the ones who had veritas as their profile pictures months ago (some even years), the kid who’s like !!!Lets share SAT,ACT, GPA, etc. It’ll be interesting! I know this is a small sampling but please tell me that those people are the minority at Harvard.

roggle6292 · April 7, 2010, 8:45pm

I really do hope 2014 goes hard. 2013 is amazing, and to answer natim1, it’s unfortunate that people are still hanging on to their SAT/GPA/ACT scores. Once you come here, you start brand new and explore those 101 reasons to want to come to Harvard, not the 101 reason how you got there.
To answer your question: that’s definitely in my eyes the minority. There is more than enough play here and I’ve had my share of fun weekends. Though keep in mind that you are coming here mainly for academic reasons. Just sayin’…

soccer_girl4life · April 7, 2010, 8:46pm

^Umm, I haven’t seen any of those people with those profile pics lol And if I remember correctly the guy who wrote that about SAT scores got eaten alive for writing that. For the majority of people that I’ve talked to in the group, nobody cares about that stuff. They just want to get to know their future classmates

natim1 · April 7, 2010, 8:58pm

I’ve seen 3 people out of like 10 ppl who have added me whose profile pics or previous pictures (even before April 1) were the harvard emblems.

soccer_girl4life · April 7, 2010, 9:00pm

just bear in mind that there are hundreds of other people in the group, most with normal pictures

natim1 · April 7, 2010, 9:10pm

yeah i know. but its always the bad seeds that stick out and get remembered.

just_forget_me · April 7, 2010, 9:59pm

@natim1 - I was going to post a reply expressing my concern about the annoying prefrosh, and talking about how awesome everyone was in the “2009 Accepted Students” group.

But then I started to remember all the dumb stuff my class (2009) did online after we got accepted: [Pre-Frosh</a> Attack–Each Other | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/4/28/pre-frosh-attack-each-other-pre-frosh-weekend-is/]Pre-Frosh”>The Harvard Crimson) This all happened on myspace, because in 2005 you couldn’t get a facebook account without a college email address.

In any case, things are much better in person @ prefrosh weekend!

natim1 · April 7, 2010, 10:50pm

Let’s hope so! I just hope people will get over themselves quickly.

intenex · April 7, 2010, 10:52pm

<ol>
<li>You can go to Estonia and people will know what Harvard is. lol but seriously, its true</li>
</ol>

Unfortunately this doesn’t work the other way around. Where/what is Estonia, anyway?

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