Sharing more burden than turkey and gravy this holiday season. By HUNTER RICHARDS Watching friends rush from their classes to make it on time for their flights home on Tuesday can be stressful for many students who aren’t able to travel during school breaks like their peers. The cost of a ticket home for […]
By HUNTER RICHARDS It’s all fun and games until you’re covered in clay dust, crusting up, walking 2 miles home from the ceramic studio after 3 hours working on your thesis. “I’m crusty,” I repeat into my phone, slick with sweat from the heat of laying large slabs of clay and running into […]
Just in case you’re still not sure what to declare… By HUNTER RICHARDS Aries: VES. The trash piling up in the corner of your room? Art. Sleeping through morning lecture for a Gen Ed? Art. Dropping out? Art. Taurus: Special concentration that’s a mix of philosophy with a dash of linguistics and just […]
“I would get a tattoo but I don’t know what I would get a tattoo of.” By HUNTER RICHARDS Do you feel personally attacked by this already? Have you or someone close to you found themselves in need of dragging recently? This is the piece for you! You’ve tried some wild stuff since coming to […]
Breaking my mother’s heart only cost $120 but was still much cheaper than therapy. By HUNTER RICHARDS The old saying goes, “Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words inked into your skin breaks-your-mother’s-heart-honestly-how-could-you-do-this-to-your-family.” You can try to keep that ink to yourself and hide it from all the parents and potential employers you encounter, […]
By HUNTER RICHARDS Aries Try getting to class on time this week. Honestly, just go to class at all this week. At least the classes that don’t have recorded lectures because you didn’t plan that far ahead but you live and learn! Your Halloween costume: Sexy HUPD officer. Instead of the Hotline Bling of yore, make […]
Navigating Harvard’s campus during Halloween amidst cultural appropriation. By HUNTER RICHARDS “I wish I had just gotten one of the easy costumes – like Native American!” Hearing friends discuss the costumes they were assigned to wear to Halloween events by their sports teams and organizations on campus, I started to remember Harvard is a bubble. Except, […]
By HUNTER RICHARDS Engineering is hard. Struggling with your identity is hard. Navigating how you fit into the engineering community as a whole is hard. Not relating to the majority of your classmates, professors, or leaders in your field because you can’t find your background represented enough is hard. Trying to graduate with an […]
Celebrated at Harvard. By HUNTER RICHARDS Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day (IPD) October 9th. Following a public demonstration celebrating indigenous culture, guests were welcomed to join members for a dinner of indigenous food. The event also allowed demonstration of the student group’s petition against the University’s primary recognition of the holiday […]
Thoughts on Coming Out Day. By HUNTER RICHARDS There is an irony in Coming Out Day being within the same month as Halloween. Just when you start thinking about what costumes you could pull off, you’re reminded of the longest running character you pretended to be. Pretending to be straight was the longest scam I’ve ever […]