We Belong to No One but Ourselves Dear Readers, Whether this is your first or fiftieth read, we’re so glad you have decided to join us. To our newcomers: welcome. If you are curious, let us satiate you. The Indy’s story begins much earlier than our first issue. The first newspapers emerged in 1605, over […]
Trading Senior Class Committee events and final exams for a different kind of cumulative project, the 2026 English Undergraduate Oration Speaker has had a distinct senior week experience from their peers. Noah Eckstein ’26 will deliver one of three orations by memory on Thursday, May 28, 2026, during the College’s 375th commencement exercises, along with […]
Dear Readers, With the Commencement Issue—and the final Indy Thursday of the semester—approaching, it felt only right to reflect on the past five months in this extraordinary, challenging role. I’ve loved to write for as long as I can remember. Something goes right? Pick up the pencil. Something goes wrong? Open the Google Doc. Writing […]
A SoundCloud remix of Frank Sinatra’s “My Kind of Town” bellows out of the car’s stereo as we barrel down Lake Shore Drive. We speed south, maneuvering through congested city lanes. Time feels briefly arrested. Across the windshield, I can only see fuzzy streams of red car lights, apartment stoops, and skyscraper windows. The headlights […]
On April 7, Harvard announced the launch of a new concentration, “Energy, Climate, and the Environment,” set to be offered in the 2026-27 academic year. The decision came after Harvard faculty members overwhelmingly approved the interdisciplinary program in a 215-3 vote. ENCE is Harvard College’s first new field of study since 2018. The ENCE concentration […]
“Whose idea was it to go and talk to the teenagers? We could’ve had a toddler who doesn’t have opinions and thong underwear.” No, Rose Byrne, the 76th Woman of the Year, did not say this to the cast, crew, and business staff of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Thankfully, most are merely opinionated twenty-somethings. The […]
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 I hear a rustle from outside our college dorm door, and I know that my roommates, Ella and Mia, are back from class. Together, they burst in, throw down their bags, and sprawl themselves on the couch. Ella complains about her upcoming sociology paper, and Mia gets started on her next […]
“Thank you to my partner of three years. Thank you for our foundation. I love you.” Celebrity Timothée Chalamet captivated the star-studded crowd of the 2026 Critics’ Choice Awards with these words on Jan. 4. Accepting the award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy for his role […]
Anyone who knows the two of us knows the Harvard Independent. They know where we are every Monday night, how we start our Thursday mornings, and what we are texting, calling, and brainstorming about at all hours of the day. To say that the Indy is woven into the fabric of our college experiences would […]
Her story started with loss. “My situation specifically was born out of a really difficult time,” nonprofit founder Olivia Zhang ’27 explained. What started as a mere effort to memorialize her mentors—her elementary school teacher and grandfather, who Zhang lost both to cancer within two months of each other—led to the creation of Cancer Kids […]