<p>im visiting harvard on friday. any ideas for stuff to do besides the tour and admissions info session?</p>
<p>try not to cry when you see how gorgeous the campus is.</p>
<p>Drop in on classes. Just drop in--it's shopping period, so no one will notice you. Find out what big lectures are going on while you're there and go see them.</p>
<p>If you like museums Harvard has some great ones - Natural History Museum, art museum, etc.</p>
<p>I know it sounds boring, but the H natural history museum has this amazing collection of models of plants from the 19th century made entirely of glass. Hundreds of them. Leaves, thorns, roots, root hairs - all extremely lifelike and all made of glass. You have to see it to believe it. Lots of other good stuff too - dinosaur bones, etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/index.html</a></p>
<p>The Degas Exhibit at the Sackler with a tour if you go at lunchtime:
Degas for Lunch
Weekdays, September 12-November 22 (except October 10 and November 11)
Sackler, 12:15-12:45 p.m.
Free with Art Museums admission
Art Museums docents are pleased to offer a lunchtime tour of Degas at Harvard every weekday through November 22.</p>
<p>Look at the posters in the Yard; there will probably be speakers and concerts advertised, and you can go to whatever interests you. A lot of student organizations are still having welcome meetings, so you can crash those and get a taste of what the freshmen are being offered.</p>
<p>coureur: I saw those glass flowers. I couldn't believe it was actually glass! They looked really real. I seriously suggest for you to drop in on various classes. The website for courses is: <a href="http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/Courses%5B/url%5D">http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/Courses</a>. Shopping period was great.</p>
<p>How cold will it be around mid October at Princeton and the rest of the NorthEastern side of the US? What about Harvard at early November?</p>
<p>I organised my tickets and stuff already and Ill be visiting Princeton, along with a few of the other ives and MIT and Chicago etc.</p>
<p>Vigorously touch the foot of John Harvard</p>