3. Don't try out your cheesy fake ID at any of the bars or liquor stores in the Square.

2. Don't wear your newly purchased Harvard sweatshirt.

1. Don't tell anyone your SAT scores.

Pre-Frosh Survival Dictionary

. A School in Massachusetts: Euphemism for Harvard. See also: a school in Boston, a school up North, Hartford University.

. Concentration: The same as a major, but with twice the syllables.

. Core Curriculum: The distribution system that allows you to take one-fourth of your classes with 300 of your closest friends.

. Expository Writing: The second most unnecessary requirement for first-year students at Harvard.

. Frank's Oriental Fish: Frank has dedicated his life to a four-year culinary persecution of those who made the fateful decision to attend Harvard. You'll get to know Frank's cyclical method intimately, should you decide to attend.

. Gut: Any course in which all assigned reading is superfluous because everything is contained in the lectures. See also: Heroes for Zeros, Blocks for Jocks, Quarks for Dorks, Spots and Dots.

. House: Somewhere between home and institution.

. Humility: No standard usage.

. Non-ordered choice: A statistical labyrinth designed to make Harvard students confused about their housing assignments. See also: Quad.

. Quad: Harvard's hidden paradise--very hidden.

. The Quantitative Reasoning Requirement: You thought Expository Writing was silly? --Compiled by the editorial staff of The Harvard Crimson.