<p>"real feel" or the 'fun feel'? if you want the former just come anytime on a schoolday, though you probably won't really get the 'real feel' unless you know people here or do some homework [literally]. typical schoolday involves going to classes & then maybe doing homework for those (which you won't have because you don't go here and you probably also won't know about the classes), eating at dining halls, talking to / just hanging out with other kids here, maybe going to do ec's (which you won't be part of since you're not a student here), maybe going to some special events that are advertised on the sandwich boards in dining halls (but most likely you won't be able to get into those unless you know someone here) and on Harvard mailing lists (which you won't be part of because you didn't have a Harvard email to sign up for those with)...</p>
<p>if you just want a fun time, visit when there's some special event going on and/or on a weekend when there's parties at some other college...</p>
<p>*edit: you probably can't really hang out with the other kids here either too much since you don't know them and you can't get into the dorms</p>
<p>maybe you should just talk to some kids in the Science Center.
I was gonna suggest going into the libraries also but you can't get in if you don't know anyone here or don't have a Harvard ID</p>
<p>So, Renaissance, if you've read through this entire thread........
Please don't think we're this crazy in real life.</p>
<p>No, that's a filthy lie. From reading everyone's posts (Dude, go search one of mine where I say what I would do if Yale was a girl), I'm pretty sure we're all completely nuts at this point.
Thanks, College admissions.</p>
<p>It's not really exclusive, it's just that you'd need an ID card to get into the dorms and an email address or friends here to find out about events. Unless your high school sends some people to Harvard, that's just kind of unlikely...whereas if you were another nearby college kid you'd probably have a much greater chance of knowing about some of Harvard's events since you'd be more likely to have Harvard friends.</p>
<p>In retrospect....Calling someone's condition of silliness "nuts", and then describing them as ''buttery'' just leaves way too much room for innuendo.....</p>
<p>At the same time, I can't bring myself to get rid of it.</p>
<p>Or "Loooooooolll, I hope I get a room assingment with these people"
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<p>not in the pretentious way. you guys all seem really qualified and quool. are most cc people applying to harvard from public or private schools? im curious...</p>
<p>Because I can't really steal squaregirl's use of reduplication to describe my public school.....I'll do it this way.</p>
<p>My school has had 3 sex scandals.
1.The FBI arrested a child porn addict (a teacher/coach) at my middleschool/highschool </p>
<ol>
<li><p>Another was arrested for intercourse involving two of his students (can't remember when it happened....mid 90s?)</p></li>
<li><p>The health teacher was "investigated" by the school for having sex with a student from when he was in 9th grade onward. She quit, and is currently being Actually investigated by the state police (of which her former husband is a member, lol)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>My town has a meth problem. How much of a meth problem?
Newsweek/60 minutes referred to us as Meth Valley in publications.
Unimaginative, but accurate. </p>
<p>(You now have enough information to locate my school/town via Google, congrats)</p>
<p>The hamlet (yes, defined as a hamlet) closest to my town, Chemung, has a militia.</p>
<p>A militia....with guns.....trucks....</p>
<p>Students and teachers alike have 'been sick' on days that suspiciously fall very close to the beginning of hunting seasons.</p>
<p>The other time my county/region was in the news?
Some broad from my school's town tried to extort a Pepsi bottling exec she slept with for a measly 125,000 dollars.</p>
<p>(If you can't figure out where I am....your Google skills are shoddy)</p>
<p>This place is a cesspool of illiteracy and backwater nonsense.
Sorry for the rant, it's probably not that unique....I'm just tired....I've been studying all day till now.</p>
<p>C-Hope, if I knew you didn't live in Texas, I'd practically think we lived in the same area! State-wise, anyways. In Austin we're more prone to pot-busting and drinking; UT was the #1 party school in the nation until they got unseated by...Florida, I think?</p>
<p>C-hope, did you mention the craziness/ uniqueness of your school in your app/ interview. That topic sounds like it could have made a good essay. </p>
<p>My essay was about how I became more in touch with my heritage during the time I was trapped in the Lebanese Summer War 2006. It addressed the psychological difference of people who are used to warfare/violence, and how in the end, I regretted evacuating the country earlier than expected.</p>