Ideas By Amanda Nguyen March 3, 2025 11:31 AM EST T he taxi drops me off back in front of my dorm, Kirkland House. Back to where I was raped. People joke that Harvard is like Hogwarts, but they’re not far off. Each of its 12 houses harbors its own culture, its own rituals, even its own specific architecture. Kirkland has a colonial-style dining hall, a quaint library, and a grandiose common room—the kind of ostentatiously pretentious chamber that is exactly what people think of when they