<p>Get psyched for Harvard!</p>
<p>Here is Annenberg Hall where you freshmen will be eating your meals:</p>
<p>Here is Sanders Theater:</p>
<p>And here is a slide show (turn on your speakers):</p>
<p>Coureur:</p>
<p>Don't you think they should show it to their parents? LOL!</p>
<p>Memorial Hall looks like such a cool building (though they wouldn't let us in to actually see it when I went to visit). Maybe when I go back in April they'll let us see the inside.</p>
<p>Yeah I've been in all those places! I went to visit last april and I got to eat in Annenburg and I saw the IgNobel Prizes in the theater and I went to classes!</p>
<p>Bwahahaha</p>
<p>Just don't touch that shoe that's in the slide show!</p>
<p>courer :</p>
<p>Thank you for links. It is interesting as we have not been to H campus and thanks for showing these slides. Do all kids eat in Annenberg Hall during freshman year. Do all kids live in same dorms too?</p>
<p>It is hard to sink in that my kid got admission in H. We feel that our kid is blessed and lucky to have a chnace to go with so many bright kids.</p>
<p>Marite and twinmom by the way thanks for your encouraging words. Marite your knowledge and genrosity in proving helpful suggestion is vey much apprecaited. Have a meergy christmas!</p>
<p>i heard there's a story behind that shiny shoe...can someone elaborate?</p>
<p>Newparent:</p>
<p>My pleasure. Freshmen eat in Annenberg. When they move to their Houses in sophomore year, they will eat their meals in the House cafeterias. All the freshman dorms are located in the Yard, where most of the classes are also held.</p>
<p>About the shiny shoe, the rumor goes that Harvard students p.... on it. This is why it's not recommend that one touch it.</p>
<p>I've also heard that drunken MIT frat boys sometimes also like to come down and pee on John Harvard's shoe.</p>
<p>"About the shiny shoe, the rumor goes that Harvard students p.... on it. This is why it's not recommend that one touch it."</p>
<p>Not just a rumor, I'm afraid... It's the thing to do on Saturday nights when you're drunk...</p>
<p>Harvard students just think it's hilarious when tour groups go by and kids in the group think that rubbing the foot will bring them good luck in admissions. There's really nothing funnier than seeing a couple of high school sophomores fighting over who gets to rub a urine-stained shoe first.</p>
<p>And newparent, congrats on your kid getting admission to this great school! I hope I didn't scare you off with the foot thing- in general, Harvard students are responsible and mature (well, for college students).</p>
<p>admiral :</p>
<p>Thank you all guys do a fine job on CC. Nah you did not scare me. We all drink recycled dinosaurs urin* and solid waste water after all. In the water cycle we p... and then it goes to wastewater treatment system, there it get clarified and cleaned, followed by discharge to rivers and then it flows to ocean; ultimately evaporates and then come back to earth in rain and go flows to drinking reservoir. After chlorination, the delicious water ready to be consumed. Thus this cycle gives us recycled dinosaurs waste water*. Such is life :)</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Harvard students just think it's hilarious when tour groups go by and kids in the group think that rubbing the foot will bring them good luck in admissions<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>The reason why those kids think that is that the tour guides tell them so. The guides (who are also Harvard students) encourage the foot-rubbing. So it's not the kids that Harvard students should be laughing at. Instead they should be laughing at their own colleagues who promote this.</p>
<p>"The reason why those kids think that is that the tour guides tell them so. The guides (who are also Harvard students) encourage the foot-rubbing. So it's not the kids that Harvard students should be laughing at. Instead they should be laughing at their own colleagues who promote this."</p>
<p>I think you're missing the point. Most of the tour guides probably are "in the know"- they're playing a joke on the students.</p>
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<p>...lol (10chars)</p>
<p>Well, it worked for my kid. She rubbed the shoe last summer and now she's in. Fortunately it was raining at the time (it seems to rain there a lot).</p>
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<blockquote> <p>I think you're missing the point. Most of the tour guides probably are "in the know"- they're playing a joke on the students.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>I think you are missing my point. I'm sure that all the tour guides are in on the joke, since pretty much every person on campus knows all about peeing on the foot. My point is that you should not regard the poor high school sophomores as stupid or foolish for simply doing what Harvard's official representatives have urged them to do. When you laugh at them you are laughing at victims, not fools. There is a difference.</p>
<p>We took the tour and I suggested to my kid that she rub the foot. After all, it couldn't hurt, right? (We had no clue about the story.) Well, she did get admitted, but, .... ughhhh. Still, she's none the worse for wear.</p>
<p>Newparent - No problem. Congratulations - again!</p>
<p>Time to bump this up.</p>