Harvard University

Let me start by saying I have toured all the top university campuses in the US and Harvard is Harvard.
There is no comparison anywhere. The only thing is how a young kid can get entry into these hallowed halls. It’s certainly a lifetime of sincere effort, sweat and blood to get in.
I was there as the ‘Duck’ tour of Bawhston offers a free Harvard tour. It’s a great campus and Harvard and central squares are nice to walk around.
Students have organized tours every weekend on the campus.
Parking is an absolute nightmare anytime anywhere in the area.
If you or your kids get in, there is no other alternative UNLESS you want a technology focus then MIT is the answer.
Simply put the Boston area is best for college kids and Harvard is second to none.

Ridiculous school. Had information in its website saying there will be free guided tours. When we arrived, they say there are no tours today with no reason today. Then, they asked you to buy a piece of brochure (yes. Just a single piece, smaller than A4 size) for $ 2US. How can a university so prestigious don’t mean what they say on the school website? Even a regular school knows better to keep their words.

If you ever get to go to Boston, make it a point to go to Cambridge and take a walk around the campus of Harvard University. Such a beautiful campus. Might be a good idea to go on a short walking tour or read up on this university because there is so much history to be learned about it.

We wanted to walk around a get a feel for one of the most well known schools in our country. It’s a lot of brick! That’s for sure.
We were really bummed to find that we were not really allowed to go into any of the buildings, not even libraries. It ended up feeling like a waste of a trip out. I can understand that they don’t want tourists flocking into buildings and clogging up students resources, but it felt very cold, even in the middle of August.
Unless you have an in, or a tour?, I would pass.

A must visit if you are staying in Boston. Cambridge is just minutes away from downtown if you travel by the red line to Harvard Square from downtown.
While you are on campus, check out the Harvard library as well as Mike’s Pastry right outside campus – it beats having to wait in the long lines at their downtown location.
Some other worthwhile places to check out includes one of their many museums – I enjoyed Harvard’s Museum of Natural History. The museum had a glass flower gallery (they looked real!), thousands of rare stones, and a «mammal hall.» Don’t forget to bring your student I.D. as you get a discount. If you are a Harvard student though, you get in free.
The campus is a perfect place for photographers – it’s a gorgeous campus.

My dad graduated from Harvard, and it was great to tour the place while I was visiting my aunt and uncle. Don’t leave Boston without touring Harvard University.

Urban sprawl i.e. the square was more then I could stomach. Took my son to view the campus and he instantly had the same distain. The old court yard (s)of course are marvelous and all the period buildings. If that bit of shangri-​la was set aside WITHOUT all the trappings of crawl, confusion and combustion (the street noises were deafening), this place would have been a FIVE.

If you find yourself in the area, this place is a MUST STOP wether you wanna snap a quick picture to a few hours w/​a picknik or a full day with tour and everything.

Oh, my heart.
This place is super magical.
My friend and I hopped onto the Red Line which leads directly to Harvard. You take a right outside of the T and you’re at the entrance to Harvard. I was shaking in my shoes I was so excited!
Harvard Yard is so beautiful. I could just spend all day staring at the old, archaic buildings while reading Harry Potter. In fact, if I ever come back to Cambridge alone, I’d love to do something like that. It’s a great zone for people watching too, so I’m sure I would be entertained all day.
Outside of the Yard, I’m slightly disappointed in the fact that it’s super tourist-​y and yet there is no one to really guide you in your expedition around campus. This is Harvard, people. Tourists want to see and do everything but they weren’t even offering public tours the day that we came by. I don’t expect people to constantly entertain me in my journey, but I would have enjoyed some experience by people/​students on the campus. I would have even paid to get a tour. This is Harvard. Harvard. I want to see and know everything.
For that mere fact alone, I had to dock a star.
If they had more things going on for the community, or had a more integrative approach with the community, I think Harvard could be so much better. Tours should be constant, people should be lingering around and giving others insight about what goes on inside the gates. Harvard is the example to the community; it should do a better job at living up to that role.
*******Shout outs:*******
We wandered into one of their chapels and were overwhelmed with beautiful sounds from a choir. It was like hearing angels sing and really made Harvard feel special to me. I’m really glad they didn’t demand us to get out because that group was really beautiful.
At another point on campus, we wandered into a random building and came across the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. Woah, what a place. You can see the original instruments that our Founding Fathers used to calculate time and space. These instruments date back to the fifteenth century. There wasn’t anyone that really came in when my friend and I were there, but if you like history and historical artifacts, you definitely should. My favorite instrument (which I had learned about in my Psych 101 class back in the day) was Wundt’s gauge of attention. When you hear the bell, you need to tell what place the ticker struck at the time of the bell. Wundt predicted that you can only pay attention to either the bell or the ticker at one time. Your accuracy would be off for either the bell or the ticker, depending on what you were focusing on. Isn’t that absolutely perfect?! I love science.
So Harvard, if you’re listening: be more integrative. Things go on inside the gates, but I can’t hear what’s going on. I’m a person walking around, but what does that even mean? Collaborate. Open the gates and open the conversation as well. Then Harvard would truly stand out as being the best of the best.

Must visit beautiful red brick buildings. Gorgeous grounds to just walk around in. You can visit the cute shops and restaurants around the campus which is a must do. Avoid going in summer when campus is dead and go in late april may when perfect weather.

It was fantastic visiting Harvard university
reached at about 5 pm, parked about a mile of the campus. rented a cycle rode through Harvard stadium, Charles river etc. Spent some time near the Charles river.
Visited COOP, hit a bar, walked around the campus.
You get an amazing VIBE when you are there. IT was FUN

One of the best schools in the World. Love walking around Harvard. So much history to look at. Many Great minds walk this university.

HAN pas encore d’avis sur Harvard en français? Je me lance dans ce cas!
Harvard, c’était THE visite prévue avec les copinous pendant notre petite virée a Boston. On revenait du MIT (vu très très rapidement) et de suite, Harvard nous a frappé: une mini ville s’offrait à nous…
Pour aller visiter Harvard, ce qui est top, c’est que c’est desservi en métro. C’est hyper accessible depuis Boston Downtown. Ce que j’ai aimé, c’est ce petit côté village alors qu’on est sur un campus universitaire, et surtout l’un des plus réputés au monde. Ayant vécu sur un campus en Californie, j’avais déjà été frappée sur le côté mini ville. Mais là, avec Harvard, c’est une autre dimension. Tout est mignon: plein de bars, de restaurants, de petites boutiques, … C’est vraiment cute.
En sortant du métro, vous avez un point d’information très pratique et surtout très sympa qui sait vous orienter sans vous arnaquer: on souhaitait faire la visite guidée du campus (il y en a une officielle payante) mais le petit monsieur très gentil nous a dit qu’il y avait une visite non officielle toutes les heures gratuite mais faite par les étudiants. On a privilégié celle-​ci avec les copains et c’était franchement cool. Elles sont faites par petit groupe et partent de l’intérieur de la fac et durent environ 1h30/​2h. Il y a plein d’anecdotes sur l’université. On a même vu la ou a dormi Matt Damon pendant ces études et aussi la chambre, messieurs, de madame Natalie Portman.
Franchement la visite est top et les étudiants hyper ouverts, ils répondent a nos questions les plus farfelues (oui, les droits d’entrée dépassent l’entendement, non ils né sont pas tous fils de milliardaires, oui, ils ont eu des bourses scolaires par ce qu’ils avaient plein d’activités au lycée, c’est tout comme dans Dawson), et ils le font avec le sourire parce «oh j’adore le Fwance».
Le campus en lui même est mythique: une bibliothèque à tomber, des allées vertes en veux-​tu en voilà, c’est hyper sain, frais, on est bien. Les grands immeubles de briques rouges. Les longs dortoirs. Les magnifiques salles de classes. Le bureau du doyen. On s’est surpris à vouloir plaquer nos vies pour être étudiant à Harvard. On est restés autant qu’on a pu dans l’enceinte du campus, puis on a passé les grandes grilles pour retourner à la réalité.
Le we à Boston était déjà une bouffée d’air frais. La visite à Harvard nous a mis dans un cocon. Si vous passez par là, allez-​y, franchement.

No, I didn’t attend Harvard, but I did sleep on Harvard Yard. It was one of the most relaxing naps I’ve ever had under the coolness of the trees, surrounded by history.

Talk about beauty and brains.
All I know of Harvard is what I picture an ivy league school to be — geeked out, totally NOT legally blonde kids with, maybe, a Revenge of the Nerds type vibe.
Upon walking all over campus, I see more beauty than brains. The sunny day added to the beautiful trees and courtyard filled with colored leaves on the trees and ground. It was quite stunning!
Amazing to think a school of this stature has been around for so long educating some of our country’s finest minds.

Einen Tag hatten wir für den Besuch der Harvard University eingeplant. Sie ist die älteste Universität der Vereinigten Staaten und erreicht in internationalen Vergleichen regelmäßig einen Spitzenplatz unter den besten Elite-​Universitäten. Sehr viele bekannte Persönlichkeiten haben dort ihren Abschluss gemacht. Darunter auch der amtierende Präsident und die First Lady.
Leider sind wir mit dem Auto angereist, denn wir haben den Verkehr und die Parksituation Vorort unterschätzt. Die sehr teuren Parkhäuser (ca. 40, — $) waren alle besetzt und wir mussten uns mit einem hart erkämpften Parkuhren-​Parkplatz begnügen. Leider immer nur ein Stündchen und man muss viele Quarter in der Tasche haben.
Direkt am Harvard Square befindet sich eine Untergrundbahn. Der Eingang befindet sich quasi direkt am Eingang. Am Harvard Square kann man kostenfreie Führungen buchen, die von Studenten durchgeführt werden.
Wenn man auf das Gelände der Harvard University eintritt, hat die Hektik der Stadt ein Ende. Man kann sich auf den Wiesen ein schattiges Plätzchen suchen, oder die vielen Sehenswürdigkeiten besuchen.
Auf dem Harvard-​Gelände befinden sich verschiedene Museen und Sammlungen, darunter das Fogg Art Museum mit europäischen und amerikanischen Gemälden, Skulpturen und Drucken. Darüber hinaus das Busch-​Reisinger Museum, mit Werken deutscher und nordeuropäischer Künstler und das Arthur M. Sackler Museum mit Ausstellungsstücken aus Asien und dem islamischen Raum.
Sehenswert ist die Memorial Church zu Ehren der seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg gefallenen Harvard-​Absolventen, die Widener Library und die beeindruckende Sanders Theater Memorial Hall.
Ein empfehlenswerter Ausflug mit vielen interessanten Sehenswürdigkeiten. Allerdings sollte man lieber mit der Bahn anreisen.

This may be biased because I am a student here, but this is the best university in the world! That is all I have to say. Cheers.

Very pretty historical campus. I took the Havahd tour that’s led by students and it was good. I’m not sure how much you would learn from just walking around the campus on your own unless you had a Cambridge/​Harvard book or app guide that told you stuff about it. Very big, clean, lots of historical things to learn. And not too far from Harvard Square which is really nice.

Great place just to add on your bucket list! We only drove around the area. For some reason, I wasn’t too impressed, but I can appreciate the positive stigma of it!

Absolutely beautiful campus that if you ever visit Boston like myself, it’s a must to check out. Walking through the campus, you can just feel the history behind it and its beauty.
The campus is rather massive. Came during Graduation week in last week of May, so be prepared to fight for parking as alumni and graduation events are combined. The surrounding exterior of the campus house many small stores and restaurants after you’ve worked up an appetite wandering the campus.

What’s to say other than I wanted to see this iconic university and I did. Fantastic old architecture and around the square there was much hustle and bustle of people dressed in periodic attire and others handing out flyers protesting this that and the other.
Saw Harvard yard which is basically a big yard that everyone hangs out on. Went into their Coop store to get souvenirs and I will say the help in there was DRY!!! Going here is great if you are in the area and want to see a bit of history or if you think you or someone you know/​related to might want to attend here.
It’s cool to go see.

My Auntie’s live in Boston, So I would frequently want to leave my white trash family and spend some time with them. I am living large with two of Bostons Grand high society dames. Both hold doctorate’s, one is the bloodline from the Peabodys. Everything good about me was reshaped by these two Liberal Aristocrats. (do those two even go together) I was very lucky to be from Cleveland Ohio and spend summers here. One of my favorite places to visit was Harvard University! in my 20’s I moved to Belmont for a short lived adventure and wish I would of never jaunted back to Cleveland.
I went to college dot com. Yes I am blasting this on the web, I only did online classes, nothing affiliated with Harvard, But I really missed out on one thing in my life and that would be College Commencement! So I decided when I completed my last online course I would crash this one!
Free beer and lunch (yes I put beer first) rubbing elbows with Boston Elitist, Getting free Business Advice– I am so proud to be celebrating with the Harvard Class of 2012!
Maybe I could use this for my recommendation letter here and work on my Masters!

Einmal über den Campus schlendern und die Atmosphäre aufnehmen. Hier wird die Bildungselite ausgebildet. Trotzdem ist die Stimmung entspannt. In der Nähe gibt es, wie nicht anders zu erwarten viele Cafes.

Harvard ist das Symbol für eine ausgezeichnete Bildung! Das Gelände spiegelt dies wieder. Die Anlage ist sehr gepflegt und die Tour sollte man sich nicht entgehen lassen!