Your social life @ Harvard

DwightEisenhower
Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:02:46 +0000

Current junior here. Harvard has plenty of people who are shwaisted all weekend every weekend, plenty of people who never party, and plenty of (read: most) people who are something in between. You won’t have a hard time finding people like you, whatever that happens to be.

I haven’t found Harvard students to be competitive, cuthroat, etc. I’ve found most to be generally nice people and many are self-effacing. But they also tend to do amazing things outside of class, during their summers, during gap years, etc and quite often talk about them such that it’s not uncommon to hear “What are your plans for the summer?” in October. I’ve found this to be very valuable because it’s pushed me to explore different fields and activities and go beyond my comfort zone. And I can’t think of many downsides to have a culture of “doing things.”