I Live in a Van Down by the River
As we all know, the key when writing to potential students is to skip around negative information whenever possible. Someone in the Harvard Housing department doesn’t know this. He desperately needs to be kept away from 0Ls.
Regarding off-campus housing:
“Apartments in Cambridge are scarce and, by most standards, expensive…. Small one-family dwellings, for sale or rent, virtually do not exist.”
Harvard University Affiliated Housing:
“These … are very much in demand by both single and married students. Prices are high for some units in Harvard Housing…. [I]t is common to have a waiting list as early as ten months before occupancy.”
Well, I appreciate the candor, but there’s got to be some reason to be optimistic… (I mean, even Columbia managed to frame their housing situation in a good light.)
“Although obtaining housing requires a combination of thought, effort and luck, people generally manage to find satisfactory quarters by the beginning of the school term.”
Too bad I’ve used up my luck for the year just getting into their damned school. Oh well. Maybe they’ll let me make a nest in the corner of the library out of coffee cups and discarded pizza boxes.
February 14th, 2005 at 10:33 am
Wow. Congratulations. I’m jealous. When did you hear?
Don’t listen to the haters. It’s much easier to find a place here than in Manhattan. Cheaper, too.
February 14th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Hey, thanks. I actually found out a while back, but I’ve been keeping it to myself while I figured out how I was gonna handle it on the blog. It’s just hard to approach the topic without sounding boastful, so I ignored it. Some of my friends don’t even know yet, seriously.
I finally realized that people are gonna find out eventually anyways, if I keep blogging through law school (probable) and if people keep reading it (less probable). So there’s no real reason to bore people by leaving out details like that.
Anyways, thanks again. And good luck. I hope you won’t be jealous for long (’cause you’ll have your own binder to look through).
March 30th, 2005 at 5:15 am
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