Almost two thirds of American adults vow to lose weight, exercise more, or alter their eating habits for New Year’s. Statistically speaking, you probably did, too. Despite the well-intentioned results of health-oriented New Year’s Resolutions, few of them stick. “Health” resolutions also breed a diet culture that might cause more harm than good. For instance, […]
“You think the United States is utopian?” Abdullah Bannan ’23 responded to my poorly worded question with a polite yet warranted laugh. “It’s interesting, because coming here I assumed that the United States is safer than Syria,” he said. “But I have to worry about things here that I never had to back home.” Bannan […]
If you say you’ve never been “ghosted” on social media, you’re lying. It’s when response times grow longer, content gets drier, and ultimately all communication comes to a halt. We have all been both the perpetrators and victims of ghosting in some form or another, and the minute we start to normalize the act of […]
Sally Sorte has experienced all types of education. From working in resource-deficient elementary schools and high schools, to establishing a charter school and ultimately studying at HBS, she has learned, first-hand, of the unscrupulous distribution of wealth and education in the United States. After graduating from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, Sorte joined Teach […]
Two weeks ago I talked about the danger of tunnel vision, and how solely focusing on one end goal often causes students to lose sight of the big picture and miss out on opportunities to explore fascinating prospects. But there are two sides to every story. Will McQuiston ’24 is the student embodiment of hard […]
Harvard’s international community continues to bring extraordinary levels of talent and brilliance to the student body, even after not being allowed on campus for an entire school year. Vladimir Aleksandrosrovich Petrov joined the Class of 2024 this year after transferring from Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239. The twenty-year-old matherite and Mathematics concentrator moved […]
I’ve been wanting to start this column for many reasons, but meeting Keith Raffel was undoubtedly the deciding factor. After meeting with me over Zoom mid-August to review my course selection, to which he supported each of my class choices (and perhaps with a little too much optimization), we grabbed lunch in the Mather Dining Hall […]
Ah, yes. Comp season. The part of the semester that re-awakens most clubs and reminds us all which email lists we signed up for. Whether the process of applying to a Harvard club lasts the entire semester or just a few weeks, it can be a daunting task. The word comp itself stands for competency, […]
It goes without saying that the next nine months at Harvard will look different than any year before. The uncertainty that lies in attending college classes during a pandemic has forced students to drastically compromise their paths in their academic and professional lives. In particular, the Class of 2024 has experienced a year of unprecedented […]
On Friday, March 12th, at approximately 11:15 AM EST, the Harvard College Class of 2024 logged on to Zoom to discover, either to their chagrin or pleasant surprise, what building and community they will live in for the next three years. First-years gathered—whether virtually on FaceTime with their soon-to-be blockmates or illicitly indoors in each […]