<p>To the current students and alumni of Harvard: what is or was your favorite part of being apart of the Harvard community? It can be any aspect of Harvard: dorm life, a certain club or professor, etc…</p>
<p>The House system. More education occurs over coffee/tea lingering after a meal in a House dining hall than almost anywhere else–and many of the best memories too. You will have a smaller “home” in a large research university and deal with a human sized administration rather than a nameless/faceless bureaucracy–this has improved even more in the past few years as University Hall has devolved more authority to the House deans, who previously were known as Senior Tutors. If you have a master who takes building the Senior Common Room (faculty) of the House seriously, who will also have opportunities to interact with teachers in informal settings. (BTW-- ask us to have lunch or dinner-- often we grab a tray and are looking for a place to sit and would love to be asked to join a group of students, but we don’t want to be forward-- so you have to take the first step…if a person is a member of a SCR, he or she WANTS to interact with undergrads.)</p>