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Harvard tries to forge community through it's House System: after
freshman year, groups of self-chosen students (with maximum capacity of
8) live together in "randomly" lotteried houses. Each house has its own
cafeteria (which has decent food), gym, and library, as well as special
house events. It is really difficult to find "alone" time because you
are always living with your peers. For the few students who choose to
live off campus, they feel very outcasted and not in touch with the rest
of Harvard, for better or for worse. The neighborhood is generally safe,
but there is always an incident every one or two months in which a girl
is sexually assaulted near a house at night by a stranger (this year) or
a man is held at gunpoint and mugged (last year). A roofies incident
also spilled out early this year. Harvard campus is not as safe as one
thinks, especially near the public parks at night time, where a lot of
homeless people sleep. Actually, Haravrd is relatively safe compared to,
say, the ghetto at New Haven, but since Harvard is still a city, events
do happen, but they are rare and very heavily publicized when they do
happen.
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