<p>That hotel is called Dorm Crew! Sign up for Dorm Crew, it starts earlier!</p>
<p>Hello all. our D doing Dormcrewâget her started on the âstudent contributionâ and hopefully get a few cleaning tipsâŠ(not good at keeping her room in order)
mammall,
Whatâs the âparent data base formââdo you mean the optional Alumni Records Form for parents/grandparents?
guitars101,
what can you do online concerning the yearbookâand where?
Thanks</p>
<p>Check out [Harvard</a> Yearbook Publications](<a href=âhttp://www.harvardyearbook.com%5DHarvardâ>http://www.harvardyearbook.com) --they publish the Freshman Register.</p>
<p>The website that fauve gave it the exact one that I used. Itâs very simple and quick. Good luck, you have until May 15th </p>
<p>Thanks fauve</p>
<p>Youâre welcome. Enjoy your year as a freshman parent! And donât miss Freshman Parentâs Weekend in late October. Reserve your hotel room soon, Cambridge fills up quickly. Dates might be found at Harvard Parentâs Association website (linked at <a href=âhttp://www.fdo.fas.harvard.edu)%5B/url%5Dâ>www.fdo.fas.harvard.edu)</a>.</p>
<p>Correction- the Freshmen Dean Office has Freshman Parentâs Weekend listed now as November 7-8, 2008.</p>
<p>Thanks Fauve and Guitars101</p>
<p>There are some pretty good slide shows here:</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> University Multimedia Stories](<a href=âhttp://www.hno.harvard.edu/multimedia/slides.html]Harvardâ>http://www.hno.harvard.edu/multimedia/slides.html)</p>
<p>Scroll down a bit and click on âFirst Day Jittersâ to get a look at Move-In Day.</p>
<p>Thanks coureur. This is so cool.</p>
<p>here comes another question.</p>
<p>If the Thanksgiving Holiday starts on 11/26, what time can students leave campus on 11/25? In other words, what time does the last class of the day usually end?</p>
<p>great question. we live in california so it would be nice to have my son fly home after school on the wednesday before</p>
<p>Most classes are scheduled between 10 and 2. Many profs will cancel classes if they are scheduled on Wednesday afternoons. And students often skip classes altogether on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. If possible, students leave on Tuesday. Many students, however, do not go home for Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>marite,</p>
<p>What do the students do on Thanksgiving if they donât go home? Is there someplace where they go? Is the dining halls open during Thanksgiving? We wondered this because we live in CA and it seems like such a long flight for a short visit.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I believe that dornms and Houses remain open as is one of the House dining halls. Some students go visit friends who live closer; international students are often invited to stay with their host families.
Among Sâs friends who come from far away, one from TX went to visit friends in NYC. One from the West Coast decided to stay in town and had dinner with us. One went home to CA, leaving early. The rest live close enough that they could go home without spending two whole days flying.</p>
<p>From the Freshman Deanâs Office:</p>
<p>âDuring Thanksgiving the dorms are open, as is a dining hall in an upperclass house. Most freshmen living reasonably close tend to go home, often taking a roommate or two from distant parts along for a change from Annenberg food. Others go off to explore New York City or to visit relatives in the New England area.â</p>
<p>Iâm sorry to see that the FDOâs tone is reined in this year. Two years ago it read â. . . or decide to visit a long-forgotten great-aunt in New Hampshire. She will be remembered again at Intersession, when it is time to ski.â :-)</p>
<p>We are from CA, and my daughter never came home for Thanksgiving. She always spent it with roommates or other friends who were from New England or NYC.</p>
<p>Is it for real? Do the students - especially freshmen - really have very cramped quarters? And if so, why does the school admit more students than it has the physical capacity to handle appropriately? Just trying to understand.</p>
<p>I agree mammell. 200+ students are being taken off the waitlist this year. I am reading more and more about the cramped rooms. Stressfull</p>
<p>We are from CA, and my D did not come home for Thanksgiving. She went to a friendâs house in NY. We felt the trip was too long and prone to travel disasters at that time of year, combined with jet lag and the fact that she would be home for winter break 2 1/2 weeks later; 3 days at home didnât seem worth it.</p>
<p>Re crowding: I can only speak of my freshman Dâs experience, but there were 5 girls in a 3-bedroom suite w/one bathroom. A single and 2 doubles with a common room. The doubles are small and the beds need to be bunked in order to fit. Iâm guessing they were originally all singles. But the girls did not seem to have a problem with it. The suite she is hoping to get next year houses 3 students, but it is 2 single bedrooms and a common room that has been screened for use as a third bedroom. I assume it was originally meant for only 2, but again, the girls are very excited about the prospect of getting that suite, so they do not seem bothered by it in the least.</p>