{"id":2928,"date":"2012-03-02T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2012-03-02T23:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T04:03:42","slug":"enjoying-junior-parents-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/2012\/03\/02\/enjoying-junior-parents-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying Junior Parents’ Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m having a bit of a \u201ctime flies\u201d moment: today marked the start of Junior Parents\u2019 Weekend. There are several important lessons to be learned from this occasion:<\/p>\n

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  1. I\u2019m getting old<\/strong>. Having your parents come to town to visit for Junior Parents\u2019 Weekend officially means that your time at Harvard is coming to a close \u2013 by this point, I know what I\u2019m studying, I have some vague idea of what I\u2019ll be doing post-graduation, and the most important questions on my mind generally tend to surround my senior thesis and career aspirations. Heck, the housing lottery for my senior year is this coming Tuesday. My days, unfortunately, are starting to be numbered.<\/li>\n
  2. Parents love to take their kids to dinner<\/strong>. If there\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve learned over the course of my undergraduate career, it\u2019s that college students should take every available opportunity to eat out while parents are around. As much as I love HUDS, it\u2019s always awesome to have an excuse to eat in the Square. This weekend we\u2019re hitting two of my favorite restaurants, Henrietta\u2019s Table<\/a> and Sandrine\u2019s<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Parents also love to meet roommates<\/strong>. One of the nicest things about Junior Parents\u2019 Weekend is that by this point, my roommates each know the others\u2019 families and enjoy spending time with them \u2013 makes it a lot of fun to go out to dinner together!<\/li>\n
  4. Take advantage of every opportunity to interact with faculty<\/strong>. Tonight, the Dunster Housemasters \u2013 Mr. and Mrs. Porter \u2013 hosted a reception for juniors and their parents. I was shocked to find that only about 20 juniors (out of a class of 100+) took advantage of the offer! At worst, these types of events are a good excuse to eat tasty food. At best, you get to learn more about different professors\u2019 lives and how they interact with Harvard.\n

  5. New England winter is just as bad as I think it is<\/strong>. My roommates are both from warm climates \u2013 North Carolina and Southern California \u2013 and I know their parents were a bit shocked at the Boston cold. While I do feel bad that parents got blasted with a snowstorm this weekend, it\u2019s a bit reassuring to get confirmation that this weather is, in fact, cold. It also makes me feel a bit more rugged for being able to survive New England!\n

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    Snow!<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Aside from spending time with my parents, my roommates, and their families, I\u2019m also hoping to take this weekend as an excuse to visit a couple of museums on campus. The Museum of Natural History and the Sackler Art Museum are both open to parents for free this weekend (students always get free admission) and my parents and I are hoping to take advantage of that offer tomorrow afternoon. In contrast to Freshmen Parents\u2019 Weekend, I now know where to take my parents on campus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I\u2019m having a bit of a \u201ctime flies\u201d moment: today marked the start of Junior Parents\u2019 Weekend. There are several important lessons to be learned from this occasion: I\u2019m getting old. Having your parents come to town to visit for Junior Parents\u2019 Weekend officially means that your time at Harvard is coming to a close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolines-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}