This is the story of how 12 first-years have begun to come to grips with life at Harvard. In the process, they say, they've become closer than they had ever imagined.

From Two Rooms to One

No one in the two rooms can say precisely when it happened, but Weld 32 and 42 quickly became one room.

"There was some hesitation," says Eleanore C. "Ellie" Humphries '04. But "we just kind of looked around and realized there was no going back and we would be inseparable."

Anne G. Beckett '04 says she was one of the wary ones at first--she wasn't sure she wanted the boys invading her room.

"They were here and they were loud," she says. "It was hard enough adjusting to five people."

Like most of the group, Anne asked for only two or three roommates on her housing form. But after a month and a half, she says she is more than happy with a large room--and the guests from downstairs.

"I wouldn't have it any other way," she says.