<p>Hey everyone. I am an incoming Freshman at Harvard, and a new user at College Confidential! A few questions for you Harvard students out there. </p>
<p>Do Harvard dorms have cable? </p>
<p>Is there a good laundry service at Harvard? I am an athlete and I think it will be pretty hard to fit in doing laundry, especially since I heard not all the dorms have their own machines. </p>
<p>Thanks for the help guys</p>
<p>hi lollicoaster-- there’s actually no cable offered at harvard. i’m guessing it’s their way of making sure we do our work. as for laundry, you can still do it yourself, but a lot of people use HSA Cleaners. i’m a tennis player and there’s no way i have time to do laundry so i just send it to them. it’s pretty convenient cuz its in the square.</p>
<p>To add on, HSA Cleaners has three cleaning options–once/wk, twice/wk, thrice/wk. But I heard doing your own laundry might also be slightly cheaper, but I guess it also depends on your own habits. </p>
<p>As for no cable, I heard that there is a way to get satellite television on your computer. I am not sure how that works, but there is always You-Tube. Besides, there are so many exciting things to do outside television! :)</p>
<p>Just a question - is HSA cleaners really a better (read: cheaper) option than doing your own laundry? I’ve no problem with washing my own clothes; I have been washing them by myself for the past ~7 years.</p>
<p>I heard it is a dollar per wash and a dollar per dry if you do it yourself. But there is also the detergent money, etc, but I think it won’t be too bad to work that out efficiently. I could imagine doing HSA for dry cleaning whenever I would actually need it, but not regular wet washing.</p>
<p>No cable :(. I randomly found that out while browsing past threads about dorms last night: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/280826-harvard-dorms-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/280826-harvard-dorms-2.html</a>. It’s okay I guess, since I hardly watch tv anyway.</p>
<p>HSA is more expensive and more mock-worthy than doing your own laundry. I think my parents would smack me if I payed someone else to wash my socks.</p>
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<p>Good point. Parental violence is still a threat to my well-being; thanks for the reminder. :D</p>
<p>^^LOL;p well, I did some rough math (emphasis on the rough;p). If a box of detergent that does about 80 loads is $10 (at least where I live), and its $2 to wash and dry a load of clothing, and there are roughly 39 weeks in a school year, then if you do one load of laundry/week that’s 39*2+ the initial 10 for the detergent=$88. Now, most of us will probably have more than 1 load per week, but if you have the time to do it yourself I think it definitely beats the $434 HSA charges upfront for the year:)</p>
<p>^And that aside, I guess there’s the self-satisfaction factor.</p>
<p>Hahaha…I definitely agree with the smack factor. When my mom saw the pamphlet, she immediately told me to not even think about it.</p>
<p>There’s cable in a lot of dorm common areas; just not in individual rooms. They don’t have a problem with you watching TV, but they want you to do it socially.</p>
<p>It’s become pretty moot nowadays given how easy it is to get most programs (besides sports) on the internet. You’ll be able to watch major sports stuff in common areas.</p>
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<p>OTOH, we were happy to pay to make sure that the socks actually got washed (more than once a semester).</p>
<p>I wish I’d just insisted and got the socks washed. I think he felt like silly getting the service but he should have. He wore a lot of filthy clothes freshman year. He just wasn’t ever going to hang in the basement and get the stuff through the cycles.</p>