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Look out, Harvard! Malia Obama has arrived.

On Monday, the former first daughter got settled into her dorm at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, People Magazine reports.

With her famous parents Former-President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama both there to move her in (and probably cry a lot), the campus was buzzing with excitement over the 19-year-old’s arrival.

​Malia’s journey to Harvard was delayed when she announced last year that she would take a “gap year” after graduating from high school. 

The oldest Obama daughter didn’t spend that year just chilling and listening to the Killers, though. As Quartz reported, Malia took that time to explore her interest in the entertainment industry by attending Sundance Film Festival and working as an intern with the Weinstein Co., an independent film and television production company owned by Bob and Harvey Weinstein.

But, now (just like everyone else on campus this month) she’s ready to hit the books. Here’s hoping Malia and everyone else starting classes this month have the best back to school 2017 possible (and also that someone got to watch our former POTUS and FLOTUS wrestle with a micro-fridge.)

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Katherine (or Katie) is the News Editor and resident witch at Her Campus. She first fell in love with journalism while attending SUNY New Paltz ('14). Since then, she has worked on the staffs at MTV News and Bustle writing about politics, intersectional social issues and more before serving as staff researcher at Lady Parts Justice League. Her work has been published in Women's Health, the Daily Dot, Public Radio International (PRI) and WNYC and she's been a regular panelist on a few podcasts (mostly screaming about repro rights.)  She is a Libra with a Taurus moon and a Scorpio ascendant, which either means nothing or everything. She loves strong diner coffee, reading tarot for strangers at the bar and watching the same three horror movie documentaries. She lives in the Hudson Valley with too many animals.