<p>Move-in day is Saturday. My mom wants to stay a few days for last minute shopping. Are there any special activities planned sunday and monday, which i would be missing if I went shopping w/ my family?</p>
<p>There are a ton of activities: placement tests, ID photo sessions, departmental meetings etc., which are all mandatory. Check the schedule on the Freshman Dean's Office website, and encourage your family to arrive a day early to do the shopping if they want you with them.</p>
<p>I'm arriving two days early to do shopping and the works with my parents. They want our parents gone on sunday by the latest.</p>
<p>So you're flying in on Thursday? What will you be shopping for? I don't really understand what the need for all the shopping is. Am I missing something?</p>
<p>^^ for things you don't want to bring from home: lamps, bedsheets, pillow, blankets, wastepaper basket, towels, maybe a toolbox, extra electric cords, power outlets, stationery, etc... I don't know if Harvard does it, but many local universities do bus runs to Target and probably other stores in the first weeks of September.</p>
<p>^ last year went D1 spent most of the summer at a university we were able to pack her clothes in one suitcase and her bedding/stuff in another. It was pretty stuffed but it all fit. I think she's going to want to get all her stuff at home and not leave it to finding once she gets there.</p>
<p>I do believe that packing for one summer is different from packing for a whole year.</p>
<p>^^ For sure. Summer clothes take up a lot less room than a year's worth of seasonal clothing. And then there's all the other stuff ... We generally rent a van for the school year!</p>