But for now, students in Adams will have to wait patiently until the pied piper, more formally known as Harvard’s Environmental Health and Safety Department, gets around to the Houses with reported mouse infestations. Cabot and Lowell have also complained about mouse sightings recently.

Though most students remained light-hearted when describing the problem, they said they are also ready for the mouse epidemic to end.

“It’s just unsanitary and disgusting and it really shouldn’t be the students’ responsibility to get rid of the mice,” Ravener said.

Roommates Abby C. Lackman ’03 and Natalie S. Ignacio ’03 are reconciling themselves to the furry visitors until help is sent.

They have spotted the same mouse many times in their room and have learned to live with it.

“He hops in the hallway and sometimes under my bed,” Lackman said. “Thankfully, he doesn’t leave poop anywhere.”

“He’s really cute,” added Ignacio.

—Staff writer Ebonie D. Hazle can be reached at hazle@fas.harvard.edu.