101 Reasons to go to Harvard

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<p>close to Russia, part of the former USSR</p>

162

<p>another reason: You can eat waffles that say veritas on them. You’re eating truth waffles.</p>

163

<p>^Yep, that’s exactly why everyone wants to go;). It’s like come on, how else will you ever get to eat true waffles…?</p>

164

<p>@natim1 - They’re huge ass waffles though, chances are you’ll only eat half-truths.</p>

<p>…Unless you <em>really</em> want to eat the truth, the <em>whole</em> truth, and nothing but the truth, in which case you’ll probably develop a severe nutritional deficiency and die.</p>

165

<p>But do you think i can handle the truth?</p>

166

<p>It doesn’t go down too well…</p>

167

<p>Another reason: you can fart in a church and people will worship it.</p>

168

<p>Well, the truth has been known to hurt, and I guess in this case, cause indigestion.</p>

169

<p>Farting in a church? I don’t see how’s that worshipful.</p>

170

<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>
<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>
<li>B.c you KNOW that you are getting the #1 education in the entire US</li>
<li>Because you worked your ass of to get there, so you better love the #1 school in america!!!</li>
</ol>

171

<p>to listen to the Harvard Band play 10,000 Men of Harvard. Great song</p>

172

<p>That’s such a beautiful song!</p>

173

<p>Yuck, I hate that song.</p>

174

<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>
<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>
<li>B.c you KNOW that you are getting the #1 education in the entire US</li>
<li>Because you worked your ass of to get there, so you better love the #1 school in america!!!</li>
<li>Because I just read this list.</li>
</ol>

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</ol>

<p>Anyone know what the air in Cambridge is like? Because it tastes pretty bitter to me …</p>

176

<p>^ Yeah…seriously.</p>

177

<p>Ugh. This is an anonymous internet discussion forum. Digest what you will.</p>

178

<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>
<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>
<li>B.c you KNOW that you are getting the #1 education in the entire US</li>
<li>Because you worked your ass of to get there, so you better love the #1 school in america!!!</li>
<li>Because I just read this list. </li>
<li>Because I want to find a place where almost everyone I meet inspires me to push myself farther</li>
</ol>

179

<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>
<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>
<li>B.c you KNOW that you are getting the #1 education in the entire US</li>
<li>Because you worked your ass of to get there, so you better love the #1 school in america!!!</li>
<li>Because I just read this list.</li>
<li>Because I want to find a place where almost everyone I meet inspires me to push myself farther </li>
<li>To know you beat out 93.1% of all 30,489 applicants (Record admissions)!</li>
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<p>New Pathway curriculum :)</p>