Goodbye tourists, hello residents
As the Class of 2017 settled in at Harvard and began Freshman Week, students from 49 states and more than 60 nations were busy taking in the unfamiliar sights and sounds of the tightly packed, red-brick neighborhood that will be their home base for the next four years. Many new arrivals said they had visited friends and family in the Boston and Cambridge area before moving onto campus, so they thought they had a pretty good idea about what to expect. But being there as a Harvard freshman has changed everything. “It’s entirely different to see it as a student,” said Margaret Irving of New Brunswick, Canada, as she crossed the Yard with classmate Nick Ackert. “It’s a much more personal experience than looking at it as a tourist,” said Ackert, a New York City native who has been studying in Taipei, Taiwan, for the last four years. “It’s much more than just...