“The more you know, the less your ego is. The less you know, the greater your ego,” said Albert Einstein. While I would never dare go against anything said by the god of all physics, I must admit, as a woman in this field, there are times I have found faking self importance as the […]
“We’d have issues that had the [Students for a Democratic Society] in one article and the Young Republicans in another,” said James Vaseff, 1984 Harvard Graduate School of Design LOEB Fellow and early contributor to the Harvard Independent. Vaseff used photojournalism to further one of the Indy’s foremost missions: to deliberately provoke university-wide commentary and […]
The Boston crowd anxiously awaited SZA’s entrance. After an energetic performance by singer/songwriter Omar Apollo, fans were singing and dancing to the music occupying the sound system while TD Garden was preparing for SZA’s stage arrival. Unlike most big-venue concerts, there was extreme fan-to-fan communication. One man twerked in the corner of the concert hall, […]
For someone who cared so much about her outward persona, it seems that infamous con artist Anna Delvey has now turned inward. In some of her first public appearances since her notorious conviction, she donned large, black sunglasses, which reflected the sheen of camera flashes. Her refusal to let the public deter her is indisputable. […]
“Illusions,” Harvard Ballet Company’s annual fall show which ran from Thursday to Sunday, explored its self-titled theme through 13 pieces choreographed by students and guest artists. On stage, dancers twirled and folded themselves, embodying the fluidity of “illusions” as the audience watched on with bated breath. Despite the subject of the show, the dancers made […]
Harvard’s twelve Houses have lost their appeal for some students who enjoyed off-campus living during the Covid-19 crisis. Even after most students returned to the time-honored tradition of on-campus housing in the fall of 2021, 265 undergraduates remained in off-campus housing–more than double the Harvard standard of roughly 100 students. These self-exiled students are attracted […]
On August 25th, 1,950 first-years began to burst through Johnston Gate. They represent a record-low number of admitted students—3.13 percent of all applicants—featuring record-high numbers of women, Asian Americans, and first-generation college students. After facing a series of disruptions to the college application process, including Harvard’s decision to make standardized test scores optional, “the Class […]
Conversations with the creative minds of Harvard College undergraduates: Muqtader Omari talks to us about his role as Youth Representative of Afghanistan.
“We are on the hunt to find the clit.” This popular phrase from straight men reveals that their communal quest to pleasure their female counterparts is, well, still ongoing. It can be challenging for these men to succeed, and, at times, awkward for the women to watch them try, often fumbling in vain. How much […]
Conversations with the creative minds of Harvard College undergraduates: Will McKibben talks to the Harvard Independent about working as a chef in a 3-Michelin Star restaurant with no professional culinary experience.