They will have access to the Senior Common Room, a community meeting place where resident scholars and students alike can meet and interact—and a venue where the former representative hopes many of the relationships he seeks will take shape.
“I think we’ll be able to have genuine friendships,” says Mazzoli, who reports eating pizza and going on outings with his students last year.
As he prepares for orientation the next morning, Mazzoli confesses that, even with 70 years of life experience behind him, his excitement for the new day—and the year to come—is tinged with apprehension.
One thought sustains him, though.
“Maybe some 40-year-old is feeling tonight the same way I’m feeling,” he says.
—Staff writer Nathan J. Heller can be reached at heller@fas.harvard.edu.