<p>have any continuing students received rooming info in the mail yet? My son received an e-mail with his rooming info, but I’m not sure what his legal street address will be. I’d like to change his address on his bank account before he goes to school. </p>
<p>thanks in advance</p>
<p>For the houses:</p>
<p>Adams: 26 Plympton St.
Cabot: 60 Linnaean St.
Currier: 64 Linnaean St.
Dunster: 945 Memorial Dr. or 8 Cowperthwaite St.
Eliot: 101 Dunster St.
Kirkland: 95 Dunster St.
Leverett: 8 Mill St.
Lowell: 10 Holyoke Pl.
Mather: 10 Cowperthwaite St.
Pforzheimer: 56 Linnaean St.
Quincy: 58 Plympton St.
Winthrop: 32 Mill St.</p>
<p>huinsider, Thank you so much! that is very helpful</p>
<p>Just remember that the House street address is not the exact mailing address- that will be different, and will remain the same all 3 years in the House. So if you want the bank statements mailed properly you will need his mail address. (The street address is required for UPS boxes, in addition to the mailing address.)</p>
<p>Most of these addresses are based on the addresses provided by the college for mailing, however, you really don’t need the physical address. Typically, the standard format for mail (including for bank statements) is:</p>
<p>Name</p>
<h3>(Particular House) Mail Center</h3>
<p>Cambridge, MA 02138</p>
<p>All the mail systems are savvy to the phrasings of Harvard addresses and don’t typically require the actual street, or at least when I have mail center to Adams.</p>
<p>Hopefully when the school year begins, the dorms will be taken care of better than they were this summer.</p>
<p>DocT, Say more…Were you in one of the houses this summer?</p>
<p>So, how much time should my husband and I plan to spend on campus during the opening days? I see things listed on the Thursday. I thought I had previously seen listings for the parents on Friday but I do not see them now. Maybe my memory is wrong. Then the convocation is Tuesday, Sept 1. It looks to me like that is only for students and alumni. When my son went to Tufts, it was on the move in day and the parents were expected. Any input? We live about 30 minutes away so we have lots of flexibility.</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I’m hoping for some opinions here. My D just got an email from one of her roommates requesting her own room because she has a boyfriend who will be coming over a lot. My D thinks that it was wrong for the roommate to send this email, since Harvard specifically says that rooms should be chosen when everyone is there. The problem is that R2 and R3 agreed to R1’s request, and my D (R4) is the lone dissenter. Does anyone else think that this is wrong? Has your child been in this situation?</p>
<p>Wow. I am so sorry that you are starting with headaches like that before the school year has even started. Not that my opinion matters or helps, but I think that R1’s request is a huge imposition the other 3 roommates. How does she expect a private room? Is there a single available in a suit setup or is she requesting that the other three make a triple out of a double while she has a single with a boyfriend? I thought that there are policies in the handbook regarding overnight guests. I hope that specific suggestions come in from the other parents with more experience.</p>
<p>PS This may not help but I found the “official policy” in the student handbook p 136</p>
<p>A person not regularly assigned to a
particular dormitory or House may not be
lodged in that dormitory or House for more
than a brief stay without the permission of
the Proctor, Resident Dean, or House Master.
The consent of other occupants of the room
is also always required. Food may not be
shared with or given to those who are not
on a board contract or who have not paid for
the meal.
The College reserves the right to prohibit
overnight guests when issues of security are
involved.</p>
<p>My D was there for the summer for PRISE and apparently it wasn’t cleaned at all (maybe because of budget cuts). It was infested with cockroaches. My wife is picking her up right now and we hope that she doesn’t bring home any with her!</p>
<p>Do you know the configuration of the rooms? If R1 gets a single, how does that affect the other three? Will it require two to be bunking?</p>
<p>If you think that your D will be shortchanged by this request, I suggest she contact her Freshman Dean and ask the Dean to intervene. The Dean need only remind R1 of the rules.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for responding Smoda :-). I really appreciate that post.</p>
<p>My D is very upset. The other two have agreed to let R1 have her own room, and my D feels like the victim because she wants to follow the rules.</p>
<p>Any other parents have advice on this. Is there anything official that D can do?</p>
<p>^ I think that Marite’s comments are accurate and that the Dean can intervene and help control the situation. My concern is for your daughter and the fact that she has one roommate that has made such a request and two others who agreed. I am concerned that once R1 is under control could there be repercussions for Mitzy’s daughter from the 3 roommates. Maybe the freshman dean is accustomed to dealing with problems like this and can solve it without creating new problems.</p>
<p>DocT - May I ask which dorm your daughter was in?</p>
<p>Marite,</p>
<p>I know that there are four people and three rooms, plus a living room. So either two people will have to bunk, or someone will sleep in the living room, which I’d imagine to be awkward. As for contacting the Freshman Dean, I will definitely suggest that to my D. </p>
<p>Thanks for the response</p>
<p>Smoda,</p>
<p>That is my concern exactly. I am terrified of that. I still can’t understand how the other two could agree with R1 so easily. My D, like I said, feels like the victim because she suggested that they all follow the rules and wait until everyone is there :-(…</p>
<p>Smoda1, This is new territory for all parents. Prior to this year, the move-in schedule involved a weekend, with frosh being able to move-in starting on Friday evening (for those who participated in Dorm Crew, FUP, FOP, etc.) and Saturday being the main move-in day. Sounds like it is very different this year. We got our wires crossed and missed the convocation (many parents went), but DD was able to participate in the infamous group picture on the stairs of the library. I recall speaking with a parent who said that the convocation was very good. We left the day after move-in (Sunday).<br>
So, my advice would be to plan on leaving the day after move-in.</p>
<p>mitzy, my initial reaction to your post was NO WAY would I agree to such a thing. I then asked DD and DW, and both reminded me of the posture that we took during her frosh year: Non involvement in the affairs of the roommates! We had been told by other parents not to get involved in decisions that roomies made (DD, BTW, had a three bedroom suite for 5 students), and this worked out well. I would suggest, though, that if your DD is uncomfortable with what R1 has proposed, that she e-mail all of her roomies and tell them that this will need to be discussed when they first move-in. DD said that during her frosh year, her roomies had an arrangement whereby the one single bedroom would rotate during the school year. Lastly, DD predicted that the BF will be no more by the end of the first semester. Let us know how things work out.</p>
<p>S was in a five-person suite meant for four. He bunked because he was the most easy-going of the lot. The second semester, he moved into the common room; he had more space but less privacy, but that does not seem to have been a concern. One of S’s roommates had a girlfriend, which is why the others were willing to let him have one of the singles. He became S’s best friend (and broke up with his GF after sophomore year). </p>
<p>It sounds to me that your D’s set-up is similar to my S’s, insofar as there are three rooms for four, so two will have singles, and two will need to bunk. R1 has reserved one of the two singles for herself. My question is: Is your D willing to bunk? If she truly wants to draw lots, then she should contact the Dean. If, however, she is willing to risk bunking, then she should let it go.</p>
<p>Well the one piece of good news is that it sounds like she is in a suite of 2 singles and one double. Why do I consider that good news? At least at least it sounds like your daughter will not be being forced to triple into a double room. </p>
<p>Now lets assume that R1 getting one of the singles is a done deal because of R2 & R3 have agreed and maybe R4 does not want to incur repercussions. Maybe R4 (your daughter) could think about what would make her happy/comfortable. Maybe R1 gets last pick of the study areas in the common room. Maybe R4 could research R2 & R3 and figure out which of these roommates sharing a room with would be most pleasant.</p>
<p>I just asked my daughter for her opinion and and she stated that, if the roommate was so forward that she would make that request, your daughter would not want to be sharing a double with her. She then said that she would address the actual presence of the boyfriend after they were all on campus. She said face to face discussion about concerns. I thought “let it slip to the proctor”.</p>
<p>Agree with Smoda. One of the singles was appropriated by one of the five before the rest were able to show up. He was the one that the other four decided against inviting to be part of their blocking group at the end of freshman year, his selfishness having continued throughout the year.</p>