First-Year Housing
The spring before your Freshman year, you will fill out a detailed survey outlining your life-style and living preferences. The college will then assign your freshman year roommates. First-year students live in shared suites in Harvard Yard and eat the majority of meals in Annenberg Hall, our spectacular First-Year only dining hall.
From your survey responses, a majority of our players room with athletes from other sports teams.
Harvard Yard
Harvard Yard is the historic squad on campus, using the same historic footprint dating back to the 1640's. All First Years are housed in Harvard Yard. Dormitories have a wide variety of rooming arrangements that range from doubles to larger suites.
Entryways
In addition to having suitemates, each first-year is part of a group called an entryway, which consists of of 20 to 40 students who share a floor or section within their dormitory. A first-year proctor lives in each entryway, who will provide academic, personal, and social guidance.
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Blocking Groups
During the spring of your Freshman year, you create your "Blocking Group" to determine your housemates for the future. Blocking groups are self-selected groups of one to eight freshmen who are placed into the same House come Housing Day in the spring. Blocking groups can “link” with one other blocking group, which means that the two blocking groups will be placed in the same “House neighborhood”. Our players often block together and link their groups to ensure they live in close proximity to one another.
Housing Day
Let’s start with the basics. There are 12 upperclassmen houses, 9 of them are located on the Charles River. Your freshman year you live in a dorm in Harvard Yard, and the next three years you live in your House. A House is essentially one big residential complex. About 300-500 students live in each of these “Houses.” Each of the Houses has their own dining halls, their own gyms, their own libraries, their own mascots and colors, and their own traditions.
The Thursday before Spring Break, at 9AM, upperclassmen from your assigned house will come bang on your door in all of their house gear and hand you and your blockmates the letter that welcomes you into their House. The whole rest of the day is dedicated to House pride and welcoming you into the House.
Upper-Level Student Housing
The Houses serve as the foundation for the undergraduate experience at Harvard College. Ninety-eight percent of all undergraduates live in one of the twelve residential Houses. Each House accommodates 350-500 students with its own dining hall, common rooms, and facilities for academic, recreational, and cultural activities.
Matriculation
You live in the same house from Sophomore through Senior Year. Each year your room and suite gets progressively nicer. Though you always start with bedrooms and common rooms, by senior year you often occupy the beautiful penthouses of these incredible Houses.
Crimson Cribs
Crimson Cribs gives you an inside look at the incredible residential Houses that are unique to Harvard, led by our players. Here's our first episode: Dunster House, which was home to seven of our seniors.