When I was younger, I wasn’t allowed to have a best friend. My mom had set a rule: I couldn’t hang out with one friend substantially more than any other in an effort to stop me from isolating myself from my peers. I was told those deep connections were found through romantic relationships. By approaching […]
After a summer-long conversation with the Harvard Undergraduate Association regarding equity efforts in Harvard’s student administration, Primus, Harvard’s First Generation Low Income student association, posted on Instagram on Sep. 19 stating that the HUA had “rejected PRIMUS’s plans for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Primus members were responding to the HUA’s vote against their proposal for […]
Harvard breeds countless courses that students not only struggle to complete, but to even acquire spots to begin with each semester. STEM concentrations are infamous for their course exclusivity: students often must have a specific combination of prerequisites and a dash of luck in the course lottery to gain access to the golden gates of […]
Harvard undergraduates hail from nearly 100 countries. Additionally, many American students have immigrant parents and strong ties to their cultural heritage. With such a variety of cultural backgrounds, students have created over 50 cultural organizations, from the Polish Society to the Caribbean Club, and everything in between. However, where there is cultural diversity, there is […]
When the National Hockey League announced it wasn’t sending any athletes to the Olympics this year, Sean Farrell ’24 and Nick Abruzzese ’23 of the Harvard men’s ice hockey team stepped up to the plate. Their student-filled team finished as the top seed from the qualifying round, although they eventually lost to Slovakia in a […]