Harvard’s housing combines exciting academic engagement and wealthy cultural and social experience with a warm, broad community life. From the instant of freshmen walk into Harvard Yard until they graduate they are bounded by people devoted to making Harvard home. Harvard University students make friends in their classes, in the dining halls, on the intramural fields and during student activities. As a freshman, you will reside with your classmates in or neighboring to Harvard Yard, the University’s significant hub. The Yard is the site of recently renovated classrooms, dormitories protected by antique trees, and Widener Library, the heart of the world’s largest university library method.
Harvard’s 12 iconic houses are the base of your upper-class experience. Home to innumerable traditions and multi-textured learning opportunities, they make a close-knit, determined community. A thirteenth house accommodates non-resident students and graduate students. The upper-class house system creates a small-college experience within a research university. The dining hall is the center of House life, where students enjoy meals and make life-long friends. House community encourages personal development and training for life after Harvard. With each part of the freshman experience, they work to make sure your first year is an inspiring and flawless modify into the Harvard community.