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Late-afternoon sun slants through the elms, dappling the crimson ivy that climbs Widener Library’s ancient bricks. A chapel bell tolls the hour, its deep sound carried on a breeze that scatters dry leaves across the path. Students hurry past, their shadows long on the stones, beneath the stern gaze of bronze scholars. You’ve stopped just inside the gates of Harvard Yard, on the edge of centuries. The silence here is full of expectation. Are you ready to begin?