“HAPPY RETIREMENT!” screamed a chorus of voices as I walked into our office on 12 Arrow Street last night. For the first time in my two years serving at the helm of the Harvard Independent, I was completely surprised by what my staff had created for me: a surprise “Retirement Party,” featuring the dozens of […]
A Harvard diploma is the golden ticket to career success—at least that’s what many people on campus believe. But dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg have paved a new path, as more and more students are pausing their college careers to pursue innovative ideas and create companies that just can’t wait till after graduation. One example is […]
“What’s your headline?” a voice asked me from a rectangular Zoom window during a 10 AM editorial meeting for a daily New York City newspaper. I had only prepared a pitch—how the overturning of Roe v. Wade would impact college students’ abortion access—not a headline. Our meetings didn’t run that way at the Harvard Independent. […]
Every Friday 12-6pm and Sunday 10am-3pm: Indulge in the Charles Square Farmers’ Market! Vendors from Massachusetts and New Hampshire farms offer organic produce, herbs, cheese, bread, pastries, jam, and fruit. Wednesday, February 9th: Looking for a reason to Keep Your Head Up? Andy Grammer is performing at the Orpheum Theater in Boston. Friday, February 11th: […]
Many scholars predicted that with most of the population vaccinated this past summer, America would experience a “Hot Vax Summer.” They theorized that the jabs would fuel a sexual hookup culture reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties in the 2020’s. But statistics suggest that instead, the desire for serious romance has only swelled across the country […]
Color kits, nose swabs, sets of eyes above blue disposable masks. These sights were defining features of campus life this fall. Though most students were compliant in wearing masks indoors and completing their weekly testing, more students disagreed with Harvard’s COVID-19 policies this semester than one might expect. And as the surging omicron variant renders […]
As a matter of public health, proper isolation periods are necessary to control the spread of COVID-19. But less discussed is the question of mental health. It’s clear that social isolation protects other students from getting sick, but how is it affecting the very students who sequester?
At the end of World War I and the pandemic of 1918, Harvard students rejoiced. The woes of the war—in which 11,319 University alumni, undergraduates, and faculty fought—and the grip of influenza—which infected 258 students in one year—finally lifted from the shoulders of the undergraduate body. Campus quarantine periods ended, distancing guidelines subsided, and masks […]
They refused to lose an entire year to virtual education. They refused to relinquish precious college time to the whims of a microbe they could not control. And they refused to let go of their ambitions. So instead, they used the pandemic to pursue them.