<p>I’ve got two daughters at Harvard who think it’s a blast. So do most of their friends. They find it the most awesome experience of their lives, though it’s probably not for everyone. </p>
<p>It depends upon your definition of “fun” and “social life.” Blow-out keggers with people hooking up in the alley out back? It’s there, to be sure, but it’s not what characterizes social life at Harvard. </p>
<p>If you would find it fun to be involved in a half dozen major ECs with friends who are all world-class at something, to go to all your own events plus all the events of your friends’ other ECs, then go out for dessert or drinks in the Square or ride the subway 10mjnutes to clubs in Bosyon where there are students from lots of different colleges, then Harvard is the most exciting place you could be. </p>
<p>One poster suggested that he knew there to be no social life at Harvard because he’d gone to grad school there. The essence of the Harvard social life would be largely invisible to a grad student because it takes place within each of the 12 residential colleges and within the organizations. I would have found it exhilarating as an undergrad, but then I was never that keen on the huge elbow-to-elbow, bar-based scene.</p>