Space for student life
Leah Seifu ’11 loves to dance. She shares that passion with young people through CityStep, an organization that pairs Harvard undergraduates with students from Cambridge public middle schools. When her group needed a practice space big enough for classes, the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) was a perfect fit. “This space is absolutely perfect for us,” she says. “We have the bathroom and the water fountain over here, so students never need to leave. There are huge windows and people are constantly passing by outside, which you think might be a distraction, but it’s actually good for students to get used to people watching them dance!” When undergraduates like Seifu want to get together for an activity — from a small study session to a large conference for international students — they can usually find a place at the SOCH. The facility offers student organizations more than 50,000 square feet of...