<p>i have some, uh, factual questions. as you might have guessed.
1) do upperclassmen have kitchenettes in their rooms? (like, say, at penn)
2) is engineering seperate, or do i apply to the regular school and say i want to major in engineering (im pretty sure its the second, but im just checking)?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I can tell you 2. is there is no seperate engineering school, just like you thought :)</p>
<p>8,296 posts!! DANG MAN!!</p>
<p>I'm no man! ;) :p</p>
<p>Upperclassmen do not have kitchenettes in their House suites.</p>
<p>but they have scrumptious dining halls... :D</p>
<p>Some do indeed have kitchenettes... My senior year, I lived in DeWolfe,
we had kitchenettes.</p>
<p>It depends...DeWolfe has kitchenettes. All the dorms have student kitchens that you can use whenever you want. Upperclass dorms have their own dining hall, so there really isn't any reason to cook your own food. I don't even have to go outside to eat as my dorm and dining hall are attached, which is really nice in the winter!</p>
<p>Freshman dorms don't have student kitchens... or at least I haven't found one in Wigglesworth. I know Canaday does, however.</p>
<p>DeWolfe is unique, as it's overflow housing.</p>
<p>Technically, it's illegal to set up most kitchen appliances in your dorm room/common room, but many people do it anyway.</p>
<p>Canaday's kitchen is really gross, though--perpetually infested with fruit flies, at least when I was a freshman.</p>
<p>Oh, I believe Grays has a kitchen too.</p>
<p>Matthews and Strauss (freshman dorms) both have kitchens.</p>
<p>So does Mower.</p>
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<p>DeWolfe is unique, as it's overflow housing.</p>
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<p>There are some suites in Currier with kitchenettes, too.</p>
<p>Practically everyone in the upperclass dorms has a fridge and microwave.</p>
<p>Aren't fridges built in in the Towers?</p>
<p>Leverett Towers? No, there is a perfect built-in fridge space in each suite, but no fridges, unless they added them in the 2000 renovation. The tutor suites have full kitchenettes with ovens and so forth.</p>
<p>No there's no built in fridge in Leverett Towers, nor in Mather Tower. New Quincy also a perfect space for a fridge without the fridge included.</p>
<p>well heres why i ask, and this is kinda a hillel-y question. i know at penn, upperclassmen have kitchenettes in the highrises so they never go to hillel on friday nights. is this true at harvard?</p>
<p>There are kosher areas/fridges in all of the dining halls... A good number of people still turn out for shabbat dinners though (at least according to my hillel going friend). Supposedly Hillel has the best food on campus.</p>
<p>I respectfully disagree about the quality of the food at Hillel, although I've only eaten there once, and not on Shabbat. However, the dining hall there is decently attended most days, even by people who aren't Orthodox, and they have a lot of nice outdoor seating too.</p>
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<p>so they never go to hillel on friday nights.</p>
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<p>The Harvard Hillel is busy every Friday night. There are (I think) 4 different kinds of Shabbat services, and then everyone eats together. I don't think it's the best food on campus, but then I really like the food in the regular dining halls. Hillel isn't bad.</p>
<p>Something I love about the Harvard Hillel is that any undergrad can eat there -- you don't have to be Jewish, be a member, make reservations, nothing. So if someone in a group of friends is kosher, or is keeping Pesach, they and all their Gentile friends can go together to the Hillel; you don't have to segregate yourself or live on bagels in order to observe.</p>