Going to Harvard implies having it all figured out. With peers that serve in Parliament, compete in the Olympics, or have worked in Michelin star restaurants, it seems that everyone else is achieving greatness before graduation. Even seemingly less-extraordinary peers are on the path to success—with hundreds of sophomores lining up investment banking and consulting […]
Though much of the first semester has already gone by, students are still guaranteed to ask the most typical beginning-of-the-year question—what classes are you taking? This attempt to get to know each other through our course load has become the new how are you? To forge connection, we naturally look for overlap. Bonding over shared […]
The art of performance has fundamentally changed over the past year and a half. Though COVID-19 forced artists to reimagine theatrics through a digital lens, the essential, electric quality of performance has been missing since Broadway went dark in March 2020. As we return in the fall, performance is starting to spark back up in […]
The story of BerryLine illuminates the unpredictable nature of career paths. A frozen yogurt business was not the original plan of one of its founders, Matthew Wallace—he went from working in research labs to cooking in the Mass Ave kitchen—but it became a central aspect of his life. “It’s like one of those life lessons—you have that thought as a five-year-old, ten-year-old, twenty-year-old, of where your career is heading, and you just don’t know what’s around the corner,” Wallace says.
Harvard Housing Day is notoriously loud. As members of each House storm the Yard, first-years’ excitement of finding out where they will live for the next three years bubbles up into a conglomeration of chanting, screaming, and celebrating. After all, there’s seldom a more unique time in your Harvard experience than discovering one’s next point […]
The Independent asked you, Harvard students, to start off your week by answering the over-simplified question: what is love? There was, however, a caveat: your response could only be one word. To answer this question, respondents had to ask themselves a multitude of other questions first: what does it feel like to be loved? What […]