<p>I was there around the same time as baystatenutmeg (What class were you, BSN? I was '78). My experiences with faculty weren’t as favorable as hers, though that was partly my own fault. But there were many countervailing positives, the two biggest by far being my fellow students and Cambridge itself. Still, if I had it to do over again, I’d have gone somewhere else. Harvard09, I don’t know how it is today, but I will tell you that my friends at both Yale and MIT had much more professor interaction than I ever had. I know you’re at Harvard, the most famous college in the world, and you worked like a maniac to get there. You can be very proud of what you’ve achieved and where you are. I hope you’re having a great experience and proving that mine was atypical or outdated. But the notion that Harvard has no warts (especially for the undergraduate) or that its warts are the same as those of Yale or MIT is just wrong. I knew a lot of people who loved their time there but I also knew a lot of very smart ones (though what other kind is there at H?) who didn’t.</p>