Seniors! Just another reminder to check in on my.harvard and make sure that the Registrar has your most recent mailing address. The address you enter is where your diploma will be sent!
Also, Senior Week is ON! Check it out, there's a pretty fun and detailed schedule of events. I suggest signing up for everything and showing up as much as you can. One of the saddest things to me is that you will not have your well-earned break and celebration in person with each other. But, I think showing up is still worth something, if only just you'll smile and laugh.
Now that the College is collating and sharing information in a more centralized manner there's not as much of a need for me to post on weekly College news and information. I will still always link or post it here when applicable but the content won't vary anymore beyond a straightforward copy and paste.
Let College Weekly be your go-to for all things regarding deadlines and campus events, news. Let this continue on as your space for more complex and deeper questions for you to address as you navigate Harvard College.
I'm eager to re-focus on our House news and on relevant questions and concerns for our community. I'll still provide helpful links to the Registrar, to the Office of Undergraduate Education, Gen Ed, etc. And, of course, I will continue to cover all things Ad Board.
I recently wrote a longer-than-intended email to a student who's struggling with their new identity now that they are not on campus and learning remotely. Though even if you are one of the students remaining on campus your new life is not at all what it used to be.
So I want to remind you that anything and everything you are feeling right now is absolutely normal:
You are in mourning.
You are grieving loss of habit, loss of structure, and the loss of the routine endorphin high you get simply by being engaged with other people in real space and time.
You are learning what you need versus what you want in life, you are learning that the definitions you had for need and want are radically changing.
You are learning what makes you happy and what doesn't.
You are learning this in a brutally abrupt way.
Remember that this is not a transition to anything, this was not a smooth process, this was abrupt in the face of crisis. This was in response to a continued emergency that is regularly changing.
You are surviving, too.
Your survival may not look as drastic as being sick or losing a loved one. But you are very much surviving.Â
Your Resident Dean,
DC
p.s. need some Harvard-y Zoom backgrounds?
Important Summer School Stuff
The Harvard Summer School has a website containing updates and resources for this Summer's session.
It also lists all summer school courses that count for Harvard College credit.Â
EXTRA IMPORTANT SUMMER SCHOOL STUFF
If you are currently on leave and want to take Harvard Summer School -->
1. Email me with your request and state why you need to do this and please have this Resident Dean form in the email for me to sign and return to you
2. YOU submit the signed form to enrollment@fas.harvard.edu by Friday, May 15.Â
If you are on leave with any riders we must go through the Ad Board.
GREAT NEWS
Check out the Student Leadership Awards of 2020 and congratulate Winthrop's Hakeem Angulu '20 for receiving the Harvard Foundation's Distinguished Senior Award
Check out Winthrop's Arianna Paz '19 in Pause for Art.
ACADEMICS
Academic Resource Center: Get study support with workshops and sign up for an online Peer Tutoring session
Advising Programs Office: Resources for virtual advising
Harvard Library: Librarians are available via the live-chat, Ask-A-Librarian email service. You can also request one-on-one research consultations and sign up for remote media help!
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Check out the virtual BGLTQ Community resources created by David Diaz, an MDiv Candidate at Harvard Divinity School
From Common Spaces: Virtual Tunes @ Noon. Live performances through May 15
Sign up for virtual yoga, meditation, movement classes, and stop by a virtual relaxation room at the Center for Wellness and Health Promotion
Telemedicine at HUHS: HUHS now offers video appointments. DO THEM. You do not need permission to ask for help. You do not need permission to receive help, either.
MAY IS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH: Counseling and Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Clinicians are available to meet with students remotely, no matter where they are located. Learn about workshops and group offerings.
Scam Alert: Be aware of COVID-19 scams. I'd say this counts as health and wellness because your well-being will certainly be jeopardized If you get scammed!
RESOURCES
I'm in full support of taking in the news bit by bit and on a strict schedule. It's important that when you are taking in the news you do so in an objective and grounded way. To that end, check out this helpful COVID-19 Info Guide from the Coronavirus Visualization Team.