{"id":11,"date":"2005-07-06T14:15:48","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T18:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/07\/06\/new-houses-of-friendlier-design-maybe\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T21:38:36","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T01:38:36","slug":"new-houses-of-friendlier-design-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/07\/06\/new-houses-of-friendlier-design-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"New Houses of Friendlier Design, Maybe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a21\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While searching for jobs that might aid in my living a secure, happy next spring in Boston, three mysterious albeit important Harvard types entered the Leverett super&#8217;s office. They wanted to see a room, any room in the Towers. After explaining that they had already met with the superintendent himself, and my remembering which rooms were occupied and which lacked windows, I brought them to a partitioned double on the ninth floor of G.<\/p>\n<p>The ladies were audibly disgusted by the cinderblock conditions but impressed by the view. However, the laminate floor tile couldn&#8217;t prepare them for the &#8220;pests.&#8221; The man, their leader who explained vaguely incorrect things about the undergraduate housing experience, asked whether I preferred the Towers to Old. I answered that I&#8217;ve always lived in the Towers because of their larger rooms, manifold singles, and lack of bugs. I continued, explaining that the geometry of the building is very isolating but that we have a strong dining hall community. They acknowledged my answers, but it wasn&#8217;t clear to me that they had listened to them.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but that&#8217;s exactly how I imagine the administration: emotionally distant and in a bow-tie.<\/p>\n<p>Their tour started in Quincy and proceeded to Mather. If I were a betting man, I&#8217;d venture to say that the Allston houses might include large, concrete towers. But I&#8217;m not a betting man, so don&#8217;t hold me to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for jobs that might aid in my living a secure, happy next spring in Boston, three mysterious albeit important Harvard types entered the Leverett super&#8217;s office. They wanted to see a room, any room in the Towers. After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/07\/06\/new-houses-of-friendlier-design-maybe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}