Southern California vs. New England: A Satire
New England: the most wonderful place I have ever lived. With its rich history, changing seasons, and endless caches of toll roads and strip malls, it really is the only place I could see myself living upon graduating Harvard. How could a born-again northerner like me ever return to the dregs of SoCal? Personally, the […]
Acapella or Aca-HELL-a?
Next time someone asks you what the Harvard “rush” process is like, don’t think Cambridge Alphi Phi or final club punch. Think eight crazy-talented groups of Harvard students hand-selected through a week-long process semi-affectionately called “Hell Week.” Think acapella. Replace bid day with Final Night, socializing with singing, and you have Harvard’s high-intensity, high-reward acapella […]
American Drag
Packing tens of thousands of fans into a convention hall is a feat typically reserved for spectacular conventions where new Marvel movies or Lego sets are announced. In 2019, RuPaul’s DragCon New York City proved the exception by bringing in over 100,000 fans of drag, reaffirming beyond a doubt that drag’s cultural force is well […]
The Harvard DJs: Telling a Story Through Sound
As electronic music takes over the Harvard party scene, student DJs are rising in popularity on campus and in the broader Boston community. Three leading Harvard DJs reveal that their success is not just a matter of hitting the right sounds or accessing the right parties. Rather, their ability to seamlessly guide an audience through […]
The Stories of Our Tattoos
Everyone knows the first-year college essentials: a fan, quality hangers, maybe even a handle of vodka bought by your mom. But as the stigma around tattoos is diminishing more and more, some students are also coming to campus with fresh body ink. If you ask Seth Rose ’26 if you should get a tattoo, he […]
A Connecticut Yankee in King Khurana’s Court
Correction: In the teaser for this piece, I incorrectly referred to the “nine” apex predators of the American legal trophic pyramid, otherwise known as the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. There are in fact only eight. As aforementioned, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a guppy, for now. But these things have […]
The Battle for Breakfast
After more than a decade without universal hot breakfast across dining halls, students and staff are taking a stand. Armed with a petition of over 2,000 student signatures, and backed by unionized Harvard University Dining Hall workers and Harvard Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), members of the Harvard community are ready to put up a […]
Overflow(ing) Housing
The housing process is a hallmark of the Harvard experience, connecting students to a new community that will remain constant for three years. But many sophomores are now getting shuffled into side buildings with separate communities, forced into the college’s ever-growing overflow housing. To accommodate the large number of students in the Class of 2026, […]