Students dig in front of Matthews Hall

If you’ve passed through the Yard lately, you’ll probably have noticed a peculiar site: students digging wayyyy down deep into the earth. Is this even allowed?!

The answer is yes. Why you ask? Well, that’s the best part: all the digging is actually for a class, Anthropology 1130: Archaeology of Harvard Yard. Yes. There is a class at Harvard that allows you to dig in Harvard Yard. How awesome is that?

Today and yesterday, students from Anthropology 1130: Archaeology of Harvard Yard as well as Anthropology 1010: The Fundamentals of Archaeological Methods & Reasoning have been excavatin’ away to find remains of the Indian College at Harvard, one of Harvard’s first buildings, which stood from the 1650′s until 1698. Read more to see what kinds of stuff they found.

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Cost for regular people: $15. Cost to you as a Harvard student: $0. Ca-ching!

Now that we’ve all returned from our summers and are once again acclimating to life as a starving college student (presumably in preparation for our futures as starving grad students, starving artists, and, uh, starving investment bankers), it’s time to look at the bright side and remember all the free stuff Boston has to offer.

Today, the classy, artistic, and historical stuff:

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