{"id":3043,"date":"2012-03-17T16:40:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T20:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2012-03-17T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T20:40:54","slug":"from-indiana-to-new-hampshire-to-housing-day-at-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/2012\/03\/17\/from-indiana-to-new-hampshire-to-housing-day-at-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"From Indiana to New Hampshire to Housing Day at Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>Hey, everyone! I know I promised to share the project I have been working on for a while, but it will be my next blog entry, which I’ll post around March 29th, in honor of college admissions decision day.<\/p>\n

Last month, the Men’s Tennis Team had the opportunity to travel to Indiana and New Hampshire.\u00a0 Ironically, the tennis team was in Indianapolis, Indiana during Super Bowl weekend.\u00a0 On this trip, we played three dual matches against Vanderbilt, University of Indiana, and Butler. All three matches were extremely exciting, and we ultimately bested Vanderbilt and Butler, 4-3 and 7-0, while falling to Indiana 5-2.<\/p>\n

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Men's Tennis Team at Butler's Basketball arena<\/p><\/div>\n

After traveling to Indiana, the tennis team traveled to Dartmouth to compete in the ECAC championships. The ECAC Championships is a three-day eight team tournament, and seven of the eight teams were in the Ivy League.\u00a0\u00a0 In the first match, I competed in the first “Harvard-Yale” game of my college tennis career. The match started around 8 pm, and while it was a tough match, Harvard was able to pull away for a 4-1 win. In the second match, we played Dartmouth in front of a divided home crowd. This match went the length, as Harvard won the doubles point and three singles matches to clinch the match 4-2.\u00a0 In the finals, we played Brown. After losing the doubles point, we were able to register four wins in singles and came away with a 4-1 win to clinch the championship!\u00a0 This event was really special, as our team really came together and persevered through many challenges.<\/p>\n

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The Men's Tennis Team at ECAC Championships in New Hampshire<\/p><\/div>\n

With each weekend traveling and playing dual matches, I haven’t had the opportunity to participate in as many other extracurricular events as I did in my first semester, but I wouldn’t trade the experience of being a college athlete.\u00a0 While it is a great privilege to be a student here, I find greater joy in representing Harvard on the tennis court. In my opinion, the biggest difference between competing at the junior and collegiate level, is that, at the collegiate level, you represent something that is larger than yourself, and that feeling is truly priceless.<\/p>\n

While tennis has been very exciting, school has also had its share of excitement.\u00a0 Last week, the freshmen received their housing assignments for our next three years on campus. For those not familiar with Harvard’s housing system, after freshmen year, all freshmen are sorted into 1 of 12 Houses. You can “block” with up to eight other students, which guarantees that you will be placed in the same House.\u00a0 While the House assignments are completely random, Housing Day gets very intense. On the Thursday morning before spring break, upperclassmen members of the Houses storm Harvard Yard (where freshmen live), carrying flags and decked out in costumes and House t-shirts. Then, the upperclassmen come into the dorms and notify each blocking group of the House they were placed in to. (To give you a better idea here is a link from this year’s Housing Day: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-e6ZxMBEkB8<\/a>). After many stressful hours, my blocking group found out we were placed into Winthrop House<\/a>!\u00a0 Winthrop House boasts some pretty cool alums and once home to President John F. <\/strong>Kennedy; Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve; and Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Winthrop House is located on the banks of the Charles River,\u00a0 pretty close to the athletics facilities, and not far from the center of campus.<\/p>\n

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Members of Winthrop House storming our room<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s all for this post! For spring break, the Harvard Men’s Tennis Team is heading to San Diego to compete in another 8-team tournament. I hope you all enjoy spring break, and I look forward to blogging about our adventures in California!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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