Not everyone worried about settling in--Oliver A. Lennox '04, for instance, says he knew he'd fit in right away. But even those who fretted before say that they already feel more comfortable than they'd ever imagined and that they don't miss their families as much anymore.
Kip describes himself as a "West Coast sort of hick"--he's from a small town in British Columbia, population 5,000--who nevertheless overcame his doubts early on.
There were "three hours of panic I'd made the wrong decision, that there was an East Coast upper crust that I couldn't work with," he says.
But those reservations were short-lived. It has helped to have a roommate like Lee, who is "laid back like me."
Before she came, Ellie felt the same way. She felt it wasn't time to for her leave home yet.
"I didn't call any of the other roommates [over the summer]," she says. "I wasn't ready to think about Harvard."
Today, Weld 42 is "definitely home." Once and a while, though, there are reminders of how different Cambridge is from Mercer Island, Wash., where she's from.
"I walked by the Faculty Club today and looked in," she says incredulously. "There were the stately professors pouring tea out of silver tea kettles."
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