

As a first-year dining at “Berg”—short for Annenberg, the dining hall for all Harvard first-years—you’ll often find yourself staring up at its soaring ceilings, glittering chandeliers, and the nation’s second-largest secular stained-glass windows. It feels grand, historic, and maybe even a little intimidating—like the space was made for you, but not by you. But that’s just at first glance.