But there were many students who were unable to discover their housing assignments for several reasons. Many simply weren’t among the few who had temporary dorm information placed into their personal profile on the SDU, while others, like Alicia G. Harley ’08, knew about the problem, but chose not to check it out because they wanted to hear about their housing assignment the old-fashioned way.
Others just didn’t know about the bug.
“Really? That’s so cool!” said Pearl S. Houghteling ’08, who also hadn’t found out about the computer error, when told about the situation.
Nathans stressed in an e-mail that many of the students’ housing assignments have not been finalized, and could change by the time students receive their final housing information in the coming weeks.
She said she had “no idea how many of that number will prove to be ‘final.’”
“We’re all Harvard people so we’re pretty resourceful, so we were pretty impressed with ourselves,” Shakir said of the incoming first-years’ ability to find the tentative housing assignments.
—Staff writer Evan R. Johnson can be reached at erjohns@fas.harvard.edu.