Home at Harvard | Freshman Year in Harvard Yard

All 1,656 first-year students live in or adjacent to Harvard Yard, the University's historic hub, where newly renovated classrooms and dormitories sit among ancient trees with Widener Library, the heart of the world's largest university library system. The Freshman Dean's Office assigns roommates carefully among 17 freshman dorms. Numerous proctors (adult residential advisors) and deans live among first-year students to help them explore Harvard's broad academic and extracurricular opportunities. Students eat together in Annenberg Hall, our recently renovated freshman dining hall, and participate in an array of programs designed especially for first-year students – in the arts, intramural, athletics, and Freshman Seminars among others.

Students Speak: Listen to students talk about living in Harvard Yard.

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