Pre-Frosh Weekend-How critical?

Shiloh
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:11:38 +0000

Hey guitars101 I wonder if you saw my son at Borders Cafe. He eats there sometimes. Can you tell I miss him?

Anyway, as a parent I had a great time at Pre-frosh. I thought that the combination of programs available to parents and students was valuable and interesting. Mostly, because you could put faces to names in so many areas of the college. And I thought I got a clearer picture of what Harvard College as an institution hopes to offer its undergrads.

We hardly saw our son except for one night from afar we caught sight of him walking with a group of other incoming frosh going from one event (hmm, party?) to another.

We had some of our younger children with us so we did the Peabody, Annenberg, the Fogg (or was it Sackler?) some libraries, some dorms (that was fun; random students showed us their rooms) Old Boston, Harvard Square, the Charles River. Stuff like that. Oh, and we raided The Coop.

The seminars covered topics like campus safety, health and medical facilities, study abroad, the advising system, etc. The EC clubs had lots going on… I remember IOP was handing out invitations, Catholic students, Hillel, SE Asian Students had a dinner event, ROTC, the Harvard pep band was highly visible and entertaining, A Capella Jam (I heard that was great.)