“Feels like Christmas”: Newcomers enjoy the annual real estate day celebrations News

Housing Day took a chaotic turn for the newcomer Angela Narcin '28 when Kirkland House Upper Classmen-Die her blocking group “Sturmsturm” “Her apartment mandate announced in the heat of the moment of the vases of her block mats.

“They came in and they broke our plants,” she said. “We had vases and they hit the floor when we found that we got Kirkland.”

Narcin added that the experience with the storm was overthrown from the dormitory, because of the incident she said that she led to a certain damage to property-that she has been “optimistic” in Kirkland over her next three years.

At Housing Day, an annual tradition, new students are randomly sorted into the 12 houses in the college. Around 8:30 a.m., the upper class of every house in the house in the home storm of the freshmen sleepers with house songs and creative posters.

Several freshmen said that fun started during the River Run, a tradition in which new students go to all nine houses on Charles River on the night before the apartment day – and many in every house – to avoid, to be placed in the bike cliffe square.

Prisha Sheth '28 said that she felt that her blocking group “became even closer” around each of the river houses and “made a detour to get the grilled cheese”.

Since last year, the DSO has granted unrestricted swipe access to the river houses on the night before the apartment day. Previously, beginners climbed with limited access to fences or crept past Harvard Securitas. They often pull risky stunts to enter the houses.

Thursday morning many newcomers were waiting for nervous anticipation. Some said their fear increased as chants for Cabot House, a dormitory in the quad of the upper class-a common prank of sleeping branches to mislead newcomers that are waiting for their apartment orders.

Sophia E. Young '28, a new resident of Lowell House, said that she was “so scared” in the morning, but “even nervous”, the upper class that Cabot singing in front of her door.

“But when they got in and stormed, it was a really great time,” she said.

Akash D. Anandam '28, however, said he felt “calmly” when his sleeping towers started a “cabot, you just won the lottery”.

“I was actually assured that she sang Cabot in front of my door because I knew that I wouldn't get Cabot at the time,” said Anandam, who was built into Winthrop House.

The double chants went in both directions, with some quad houses exporting as river houses.

Isiuwa MJ OdiYE '28 said she expected Lowell when the sleep disorders arrived in front of her door for the first time.

“You sang Lowell for my room,” she said. “And then it was a currier.”

“The vibes are still off. However, the bike is in the Amazon basket. You won't catch me on a scooter, ”added OdiYE.

Some new students said their preparations on the night before the full dividends – and that the great unveiling of their apartment mandate was everything they had hoped for.

“We have Kirkland. I feel excellent. I am very excited, ”said Anne T. Harrington '28. “It's a great house and it's even better with us.”

Kimberly S. Cortes-Martinez '28 said half of her blocking group hoped to be placed in Currier House.

“If I got quaded, I am glad that I have a currier,” said Martinez.

For others, the view of living in the quad – which would mean almost a mile hike to the farm – was first a difficult pill to swallow.

“We got Currier in the quad what, of course, of course, of course, I think we were a bit annoyed – not even in the sky – but only because we remove the distance like the distance,” said Sheth. “I go to the second four days a week, so I definitely have something that I took into account.”

But as soon as the celebrations started in Annenberg, where both the upper class and the first semester gathered to continue singing to their house, Sheth said that Currier House had “the best energy”.

“We were on the table, we danced, we also had the music of the housing notes day,” she added. “It was just so wonderful atmosphere.”

Regardless of their apartment task, several newcomers said that they were only happy to finally experience an estimated tradition.

Audrey M. Lord '28 said River Run felt “like Halloween” and the day of apartment “feels like Christmas”.

“It's just really festive and we had a lot of fun,” she added.

– The writer Tammy S. Lee can be reached at tammy.le@thecrimson.com.

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