Every so often, Ellie says she cannot help but think of her life here as more than just an ordinary college experience.
"I wake up and I mutter some obscenity and I say, 'I'm at Harvard. What am I doing here?'" she says.
Anne wasn't ready to leave for Cambridge in September either. Her roommates help her overcome her homesickness.
"We have our crying sessions," she says. "I've cried in front of them a lot."
But it's not as bad as she thought she would be. The people around her make it possible to go on.
"People are amazingly willing to listen," she says. "I haven't met anybody who didn't know what I was talking about."
Not all the first-years have had difficulty adjusting. Oliver, a graduate of the Dalton School in New York, came to Harvard with a built-in social network.
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