The Tenements of Haaaahvaaaahd

Several students said that Harvard’s high sticker price makes the problem more frustrating.

“As Harvard students you pay so much money to come here,” Gupta said. “But I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to just seal everything off properly and get rid of this problem, because it seems like it’s been there for years.”

Plattner said his peers are both “traumatized” and “accustomed to” dealing with rodents in their dorms.

“It’s just a fact of life at this point,” he said.