{"id":5374,"date":"2013-03-12T22:08:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2013-03-12T22:08:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:08:50","slug":"lowell-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/2013\/03\/12\/lowell-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowell Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I can\u2019t always make it back to the Quad for meals in Currier, I tend to bounce around from River House to River House for lunch and dinner.\u00a0 The great thing about being a dining hall wanderer is that since I spend so much time in other upperclassmen houses, I get a pretty strong sense of the culture in each individual house community. Each house has little quirks and traditions that set it apart from the other 11.<\/p>\n

I was hanging out with my friends in Lowell House after dinner the other week, when I inadvertently discovered Lowell House Speeches. Basically, for a number of weeks in the spring semester, the Lowell provides the opportunity for residents to sign up and share a 5-minute original speech with their peers following dinner.\u00a0 I\u2019m just an outside observer, but I think that the idea is to give students a space where they can reflect on major life events or lessons learned, and grow from sharing something personal with their housemates.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I didn\u2019t know about the event when I made plans to eat in Lowell that evening.\u00a0 At first I was totally caught off guard when a girl walked up to podium and started speaking into the microphone, but it didn\u2019t take long for my confusion to swing to delight.\u00a0 I can\u2019t get over this tradition.\u00a0 Sure, as students we get to share our academic thoughts on a regular basis in response papers and section discussion. But we don\u2019t always have the opportunity to speak broadly about the life experience (like you would in a college application essay) outside of conversation between friends.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed listening to this speech, so maybe you will too.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the link to the speech that I stumbled upon that night<\/a>.\u00a0 It was really well done, and I think it\u2019s a great example of why it is so important that students have a platform like this to share their take on things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I can\u2019t always make it back to the Quad for meals in Currier, I tend to bounce around from River House to River House for lunch and dinner.\u00a0 The great thing about being a dining hall wanderer is that since I spend so much time in other upperclassmen houses, I get a pretty strong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37379],"tags":[59092,36,3987,37412,64903],"class_list":["post-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kemies-blog","tag-dining-hall","tag-food","tag-house-life","tag-lowell","tag-tradition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374","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\/4469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5377,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}