<p>Does anyone know if there is a course schedule on-line to start trying to arrange your schedule? My son is anxiously looking forward to checking out the class schedule. Also, how is registration handled? Is it done by mail or when he actually goes to school on move-in day? Speaking of move-in day, does anyone have a date for that? </p>
<p>We're obviously newbies to the whole college thing. Sorry to sound so stupid.</p>
<p>I was browsing around the Government department yesterday and found a schedule somewhere. Let me try and look for it again... here it is: Preliminary</a> Course Schedule 2008-2009 . I am sure other departments have something similar up.</p>
<p>I just wish Harvard would send me a nice big coursebook I can flip through like Princeton has (along with a separate book for Freshman Seminars). I'm also pretty antsy.</p>
<p>Move-in day information (and lots of other helpful info) can be found here: [url=<a href="http://fdo.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k3806&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup9113%5DHarvard">http://fdo.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k3806&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup9113]Harvard</a> College Freshman Dean's Office<a href="Freshman%20Dean's%20Office%20-%20go%20to" title="For the Class of 2012">/url</a></p>
<p>spiffystars,</p>
<p>Thanks so much! This is great for him to start looking around at. Glad to hear that he's not the only antsy one :) </p>
<p>Congratulations to you on your addmission!</p>
<p>Guitars101: There is no pre-registration. One of the best things about Harvard is the "shopping period." Students try on lots of courses for size and then pick which ones they like which work with their schedules. There is also a book (CUE Guide, I believe) which gives teacher and course evaluations, written by students. Your son should get a copy on move-in day.</p>
<p>Many freshmen seminars are lotteried; some require application directly to the prof. You'll get more info from Harvard on this up the road.</p>
<p>The CUE guide is also online: <a href="https://www.pin1.harvard.edu/pin/authenticate?__authen_application=FAS_CUEGuide&original_request=%2F%7Ecueguide%2Fcueguide07-08%2F%5B/url%5D">https://www.pin1.harvard.edu/pin/authenticate?__authen_application=FAS_CUEGuide&original_request=%2F~cueguide%2Fcueguide07-08%2F</a></p>
<p>Your son can log in with his new HUID :] Can you tell I've spent way too much time researching?</p>
<p>Spiffystars: Great! Enjoy perusing that site ... and congratulations to you too!</p>
<p>spiffystars, Thanks again. One more question... Doesn't my son have to wait to login until he receives his pin/id#?</p>
<p>He should have already gotten his HUID in his admissions packet, so when it asks for his PIN, there should be a link nearby to activate a PIN.</p>
<p>What Jen98 said. Your Harvard PIN has to be ridiculously unique though (I think it's something like a combination of capital and lowercase letters and numbers, and it can't be based off a dictionary word), so make sure to write it down somewhere because it's very easy to forget! Unless you make up a song for it, like I have..haha.</p>
<p>Also you can look at ALL current course listings (including freshman seminars) by going to Welcome</a> to my.harvard, clicking the "Courses" tab, and then clicking "Search" when the Shopping List comes up. You can search by department, core curriculum, professor, etc. You can look at course descriptions, syllabi, etc. A lot of the current listings will probably be available for the 08-09 academic year...probably.</p>
<p>Basically, having a HUID is like an all access pass for the incredibly nerdy and anxious haha :]</p>
<p>Thanks. My son signed up, but it told him he needed to wait 24 hrs for activation. </p>
<p>He's anxiously waiting to check things out. </p>
<p>BIG thanks for all your help!</p>