Housing day approaches

Colleges & Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>I thought the following might be fun for some of you to see some of the "advertising" the upper class houses do as housing day approaches. Housing day is this week (I think March 10th). The following is what I have come across for 2011 so far.</p>

<p>Adams:
YouTube</a> - I Live in Adams</p>

<p>Cabot:
YouTube</a> - Cabot Cribs</p>

<p>Currier (trailer):
CURRIER</a> HOUSE: Housing Day 2011</p>

<p>Dunster (trailer):
YouTube</a> - Dunster Housing Day Trailer 2011</p>

<p>Eliot (teaser):
YouTube</a> - Eliot Housing Day 2011 Teaser</p>

<p>Kirkland:</p>

<p>Leverett:
YouTube</a> - Teach Me How To Bunny
YouTube</a> - I Just Got Lev</p>

<p>Lowell:
YouTube</a> - Like It's Lowell House</p>

<p>Mather:</p>

<p>Phosheimer (trailer):
YouTube</a> - Pfoho Housing Day Trailer<a href="note%20the%20year%20at%20the%20end%20of%20the%20trailer-opps">/url</a>
[url=<a href="http://pfhousingday.tumblr.com/%5DPfHousing">http://pfhousingday.tumblr.com/]PfHousing</a> Day 2011</p>

<p>Quincy:
YouTube</a> - QUINCEPTION</p>

<p>Winthrop:</p>

<p>(BTW I did read through the TOS and hopefully I am right that these clips were allowed to be posted.)</p>

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<p>To those who wind up at the Quad - I’ve had two kids in the Quad and they both loved it. It’s a great quality of life with really tight communities.</p>

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<p>Isn’t the assignment of a block random? If so, what is the purpose of advertisements and housing day?</p>

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<p>^To get people excited about the house they do get into.</p>

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<p>^ that is exactly the point. It is the beginning of house spirit.</p>

<p>What I think many who do not attend Harvard do not realize (including me before my daughter went there) is that the student’s house is more than a dorm. It is part of their school identity. As I have been told (please correct me if I am wrong) is that at reunions Harvard grads identify themselves by their house.</p>

<p>@gadad - until I saw the above videos, I did not understand the fuss about how great the Quad rooms are.</p>

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<p>one more great housing clip for those who missed it:
[YouTube</a> - Hitler Gets His Housing Assignment](<a href=“Hitler Gets His Housing Assignment - YouTube”>Hitler Gets His Housing Assignment - YouTube)</p>

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<p>Some of these videos are amazing. The Pfoho blog deserves a mention too. It’s really funny! I don’t know why people say Harvard doesn’t have house spirit.</p>

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<p>Isn’t Kirkland where Mark Zuckerberg lived?</p>

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<p>p**** Mark Zuckerburg</p>

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<p>^haha. The Pfoho puns are p****ing awesome.</p>

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<p>You can see all the housing videos here: [HousingDay’s</a> Channel](<a href=“Shortform”>ShortForm Video Startup History | Shortform - The World's Best Book Summaries)
Enjoy! (warning, some of them are really bad lol.)</p>

<p>For fun- this is the video from back when one year, the Housing Day hype was mistaken as an anti-war protest by the local news station: </p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - annenberg protest](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>

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<p>A “block” of eight people is a group that you put together on your own; the assignment of blocks to Houses is random (or done by a “Sorting Hat” if you prefer :)), though your block can ask to be in proximity to a couple other blocks. All the activities aren’t designed to make students choose your House; they’re intended to make the frosh feel good about the Houses into which they’re placed.</p>

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<p>I loved Levs’ and Quads videos, Kirkland was just plain weird all I understood was **** YEAH.</p>