Harvard Yard is the oldest part of the university, dating back to the founding in 1836. It's a pretty campus even on a cold & breezy spring day.

While walking through the campus, my wife and I debated what has more effect on the quality of education offered by an institution: the quality of faculty or the quality of students. I argue that Harvards ability to attract the very best and brightest has the most to do with its exceptional reputation. Personally, I believe the motivation and intelligence of my peers at the University of Michigan to have contributed more to my education than all those lectures that I half slept through.