Zoom’s Doubt An email interview with Professor Matt Saunders Interview by MICHAEL KIELSTRA As Harvard goes online, there is an assumption that most if not all courses can easily be delivered over a video-link. After all, you can watch a professor online and take notes just as easily. Some classes, however, don’t translate as well […]
Race To The Starting Line A Spoiler Conversation about Sonic the Hedgehog By MICHAEL KIELSTRA and JONATHAN ZHANG JZ: Hi, I’m Jonny Zhang. MK: And I’m Michael Kielstra, and we just saw Sonic the Hedgehog. For context, I know next to nothing about Sonic the Hedgehog. JZ: And I know almost everything about […]
When I come into his office, Dr. Mark Gearan’s hands are straightening out a paper on his desk, and there is a moment when I am terrified that this interview will consist only of the former White House Communications Director reading from a prepared statement. This passes instantly as we begin to talk, and I […]
Enough of the Space Laser Sword Wizards! A spoiler review of The Rise of Skywalker By MICHAEL KIELSTRA If you love Star Wars of any kind, then you have to watch The Rise of Skywalker. That’s not because it’s a good movie. It isn’t. Considered as a movie, it’s got a rushed first […]
Four Ways to See a Party Finding love at the Adams House Valentine’s Day party By MICHAEL KIELSTRA Iwent to Chocoholica, the annual Adams House Valentine’s Day Party. Those are the facts. The rest is a story which, depending on where I center it, I could tell in any one of a hundred […]
A Piece of Politics The election of a new House Committee Co-Chair By MICHAEL KIELSTRA The HoCo meeting started late. Outside, in the courtyard, raindrops flung themselves against the bare oak trees. The gamblers on the other side of the JCR filled out prediction sheets or brackets for some event or other. Up for […]
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation The unexpected warm welcome upon arriving in London By MICHAEL KIELSTRA One of my earliest memories of travel is that of a younger version of my father telling me what HSBC stands for. The adverts have been plastered on the airbridges at London Gatwick and London […]
A Weekly Dose of Bollobás: The Mathematics Directed Reading Program By MICHEAL KIELSTRA Mathematics is taught in different ways. Some people prefer the large lecture format, others the small seminar, and still others that venerable Harvard institution, the long night alone with a textbook and a problem set. This year, while promoting […]
A Dissolute Council: The Movement to End the UC By MICHAEL KIELSTRA and ARSH DHILLON On Sunday, October 27th, Nicholas Eynon ’21 sent an email to the Kirkland mailing list, urging students to sign a petition to dissolve the UC. The Dissolve the UC group hopes to get their referendum question on the […]
My Mother Serena Joy: Who Tells The Handmaid’s Tale? By MICHAEL KIELSTRA I admit it. I was late to the Margaret Atwood party. I didn’t read The Penelopiad until late last year, and I didn’t read The Handmaid’s Tale until after that. I still haven’t read Oryx and Crake. I am the first […]