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<p>. . . . . . . . Stalker.</p>
<p>PS, can i just say that the LSD guy made my year? Probably one of the funnier things to happen on campus in awhile.</p>
<p>lol saxfreq, care to share the story of the "LSD guy"? what happened?</p>
<p>^^see above link to story about "naked quincy guy."</p>
<p>clearly, harvard students are a lot more bored during the summer</p>
<p>k you guys. next summer we have to make an effort to both avoid Cambridge and to avoid CC. agreed? k great thanks.</p>
<p>ok just for informational purposes, I should point out that jasminejewel isn't a Yale student. She's actually a highschool freshman from new york. However, I haven't lived at Yale yet so she could be perfectly right. Just don't want anyone to get confused. And in all honesty, I don't want anyone to think this was a partisan gesture and I'm coming on the Harvard board to cause trouble. sorry, sorry. ok resume haha.</p>
<p>That would be hard to do.</p>
<p>I recall once taking some harvard people around Columbia. In the lounge of one of the dorms (Wien) there was some bizarre event in which people were just standing around under strobe lights and disco balls. The Harvard people said it reminded them of their House-sponsored parties. I thought they had to be kidding. </p>
<p>In my experience, social life at most of the Ivies seems comparable. You could wander around Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, or Yale at night and see much the same stuff. I would assume that a place like Dartmouth or Cornell is probably more active because the students have fewer outlets (cities or towns) to filter out into. </p>
<p>I will say they all beat Swarthmore substantially. I was flabbergasted to see everyone there turn in at around 9pm, after sitting around their dorm. They were sophomores, and it was Saturday night.</p>
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<p>Sucks for them. I went to some pretty hott parties this year.</p>
<p>Cha really...I went to some amazing parties. Of course, my friends and I know the people who know the parties...so yeah. It's quite easy to miss everything if you don't ask around...</p>
<p>I've heard from people who don't drink that Harvard's social scene is bad because the entire undergraduate population is thinking one thing: "Let me endure four years of this so I can get my farkin' Harvard degree."</p>
<p>Well . . . I don't really drink anymore, nor does my best friend, and that's not something we experienced. </p>
<p>Guess it's different for everyone.</p>
<p>I can't cite quantitative evidence, but people tend to be really reluctant to "leave the Harvard bubble" and enter the real world. I know I wish freshman year didn't go by as quickly as it did!</p>
<p>This is quite true. Given it's right on the subway and has easy access to Boston, Harvardians don't really take advantage of the city. Perhaps this is a bit of willing condescension, as so many Harvardians are from New York/LA and may look down on little Boston and its plebian population of BC/BU/N'eastern grads, but I'm sure there must be other reasons. </p>
<p>A Harvard friend of mine was out for a year, teaching at our old high school, before he'd had enough, skipped out on several Ivy League law schools and became a consultant for some undergraduate EC back in Cambridge. Harvard Yard must exert some extraordinary centripetal force...</p>
<p>I think it's less about condescension, and more about the T shutting down at 1 a.m.</p>
<p>What's an undergraduate EC?</p>
<p>Do you mean to say Harvardians couldn't enjoy Boston during the day/early evening? There are, you know, museums, theatres, restaurants, interesting neighborhoods, historical sites- plenty to keep a cultivated Harvard (wo)man interested, other than bars and clubs. </p>
<p>EC = Extracurricular. Some kind of student publication.</p>
<p>No one has time during the day/early evening, unfortunately...and yes, it is about the T shutting down...12:30, actually, I believe. Depending on how many people you go to Boston with, you can pay anywhere from $4 to $30 for a cab. $7-10 is my usual fare.
And xjayz...hahahaha I think I met you...several times...I'm just really bad with names.</p>
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<p>If this were true, the large proportion of my classmates who could have graduated after three years would have.</p>
<p>They didn't. Less than 10% of those with the option took it. So it's not a matter of endurance.</p>
<p>Just because us Harvard students don't have the time or opportunity to go into Boston more often does not mean that it's another excuse to call us stuckup, arrogant, condescending, etc. I would LOVE to go explore Boston more, and in fact I have been to museums, restaurants, concerts, clubs, etc., but I usually have too many things to do on campus (which is a good thing). During the summer, its my job and my volunteer work. During the year, its schoolwork and extracurriculars. Also, Boston is not NYC in terms of transportation. Subways are annoying when they shut down, and cabs are expensive.</p>