Do Housing Day Right
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Akanksha Sharma ‘14 celebrates with other residents of Cabot House in Harvard Yard. On Thursday morning residents of each House met and converged on the Yard where they visited each freshman dorm to welcome members of the Class of 2015 into their upperclassmen houses.
Freshmen, it's here: Housing Day. Seeing as it may (or may not) define the next three years of your life, here are some tips so that you don't mess it up.
1. River Run is Not Primal Scream
Just because both events involve cardio does not mean that they are the same. So keep your clothes on, please! No one wants to see what seven months of d-hall froyo has done to your physique. Also, doing laps around the yard will do nothing to prevent you from being quaded.
2. Make the Best of Your House
Like the saying goes, when God gives you a bad house, make lemonade out of your tears. The salt brings out the lemon and it gets people to feel bad for you! Last year people felt so sorry for me that I got placed in Dunster that they didn't mind that I was eating all the lemon squares at the Lowell Masters' open house, or that I left Clover without paying the bill.
3. Don't Be the Crier
There is always that one kid that cries on housing day. I was that kid. Everyone remembers. I mean everyone. My blockmates, my professors, that tourist that videotaped me. If you are going to cry (so that you can crash Adams' Stein Club as well) just make sure that someone else is crying louder. This can be done easily with a solid jab to the face.
4. Don't worry about missing out
Housing Day is basically a midterm; you stay up all night, stress-eating muffin tops in the d-hall, and then run around screaming when you find out that all the drinking you did the night before did nothing to help you get your desired result. So don't worry about missing Housing Day, or your midterm for that matter. They are basically interchangeable.