<p>My recollection was that she did ask for someone who had traveled or lived overseas as well. Since I’d grown up in the foreign service I fit the bill. My parents were living in Africa at the time.</p>
<p>I, too, have heard that the Harvard housing office has fun. Perhaps an urban legend, but a few years ago there was supposedly a suite made up of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.</p>
<p>On our tour, the tour guide told of five guys who could not figure out what their commonality was for days - until they realized that they were all exactly five foot eleven and one half inches tall.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t remember height being on the housing questionnaire, but I do believe Harvard is omniscient about some things…!</p>
<p>Once students get their room assignments, they should go to <a href=“http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dorms/[/url]”>http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dorms/</a> to check out the former occupants! It is amazing fun to find a notable past alum, and also fascinating to look at the evolution of names from the 1800s. This gave me chills.</p>
<p>Yeah, no kidding- my (twin) brother discovered he was staying in the same room that Tommy Lee Jones had (with Al Gore across the hall).</p>
<p>When I visited, I learned that two girls across the hall from where I was staying had both requested not to receive a lesbian roommate. They got each other.</p>
<p>^^ wait a moment here, do you mean that THEY are lesbians themselves? if so, why did they request to not receive lesbian roommates? this feels kinda funny but doesn’t make any sense</p>
<p>I wasn’t impressed with the Harvard dorms and I found that a lot of LACs that we looked at had significantly better dorms. One of the fun things that my kid found last year was having 5 students in 4 bedrooms. This caused a lot of scrambling the first few days with some of the parents unfortunately getting involved. The decision on who was getting singles etc was determined by drawing straws. It was decided that 1 student would have a single the entire year and the others would rotate.</p>
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<p>I’m sure it could be very uncomfortable. You certainly wouldn’t want to have a relationship with a roommate (can you imagine how awkward it would be for the rest of the year?). From what I’ve heard, it doesn’t usually turn out well.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I’m eligable to post here, since I’m not in the class of 2011 (if I do make the grades to apply without severe embarrassment and get accepted about 2 1/2 years from now, I could be in the class of 2014) but while looking into frosh dorms, I took a particular liking to Wigglesworth. It seems more cozy and clean than the others, and I like the layout of the suites. Is it really as nice as I think it is, or is it completely awful? I haven’t seen anyone mention it.</p>