Visitas memories
This weekend, nearly 1,300 admitted students are expected to visit the Harvard campus for Visitas, the annual introduction to Harvard. Pre-freshmen from across the United States and the world will travel to Cambridge for a taste of life at Harvard, and mark the return of Visitas. (The event was cancelled last year after the marathon bombing.) Herman Kaur Bhupal ’16, a member of Eliot House and a concentrator in economics originally from Chapel Hill, N.C., offers here a reflection of her first visit to Harvard. Annenberg is quite large, as far as dining halls go. You walk in for the first time as a pre-frosh during Visitas and you have one of two thoughts: Either you have just entered the world of Harry Potter and you are in the Great Hall, or you have no idea how you are going to find someone familiar in the sea of faces. At least,...