Around this time last February, my eyes sprung open as the morning light flooded my 10 ft. x 10 ft. dorm room. Icy wind chilled the side of my body through the window I intentionally placed next to the head of my bed and cracked open as far as dorm regulations would allow. I hated […]
Last year, Elon Musk experimented with our sacred trust in social media authenticity. He took the blue check, which has monopolized our faith in abstract virtual spaces over the past decade, and made it available for purchase. For only $8. With the departure of a streamlined authentication process came the arrival of numerous impersonated celebrities, […]
Dear Harvard Independent Readers, As conversations surrounding the conflict in Israel and Palestine continue to escalate on campus, we must recognize our positions as both Harvard students and human beings, and the role we play in public discourse. Over the past decade we have reported on students organizing with respect to Israel and Palestine. Our […]
In his Magnum Opus The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes the disillusioning, misguided, and ultimately self-fulfilling story of young adults in postwar France and Spain. He narrates their exorbitant lives filled with drinking, surface-level relationships, and the unsatiated pursuit of wealth. Residue from World War I—in both the gross disregard for human life for […]
“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 […]
This summer, I interned at a bank. I lived with six MIT students: three incoming seniors (four, including myself), and three recent graduates. The majority of us worked in finance, whether it be for a summer internship or having a full-time job, and the final roommate was a software engineer. The difference between being a […]
Dear Readers, In 1969, the Harvard Independent was established as a platform on campus for students to freely voice their opinion against a commonly biased public narrative. Student protests due to the Vietnam War sparked a cascade of on-campus political and social involvement, giving rise to the Independent’s role as a Counterpoint. Since then, Independent […]
How did the media impact public perception during the Cold War? In less than 20 seconds, Chat GPT was able to give me four ledes to my history essay: propaganda, news coverage, popular culture, and fear and anxiety, as well as thorough, 2-3 sentence explanations for each. I then inputted, Can you give me some […]
I might just be the most impulsive person you’ll meet, but I’ve never been more certain about committing to an industry I believe in. When I was little, I would spend hours writing short poems about my dog, an old tree in my backyard, or the pet horse I never had. When I was ten, […]
Just hours after Yale Law School announced its official withdrawal from the U.S. News & World Report’s Rankings on November 16th, Harvard Law School followed suit. Yale’s decision became a catalyst for an exodus of other prestigious law schools from the annual report, including Stanford, Georgetown, Berkeley, and Columbia. While I’ll admit I appreciate discovering […]