An interview with violist Anna Sato. Anna Sato is a sophomore in Quincy House, planning on concentrating in Statistics. Hailing from Stony Brook, New York, Anna has been involved in several music organizations since freshman year, including the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the selective Brattle Street Chamber Players. Indy: When did you first start playing music? […]
BY Manik Bhatia Examining the Coop’s quasi-monopoly on the textbook industry. While the past two decades have seen an admirable increase in the accessibility of college, particularly to low and middle income families, one area of financial concern still remains: textbook prices have soared to the extent that many students simply cannot afford them and […]
BY CAROLINE GENTILE Harvard is no longer a place where the sun don’t shine. Instead of setting up a booth at the Activities Fair, complete with free candy and a homemade sign, Angela Oh ‘15 and Christina Vourakis ‘16 flitted through the throngs of freshmen, decked out in vibrant yellow shirts and armed with equally […]
BY KAYLN SAULSBERRY How to pick a year’s worth of electives. During my senior year of high school, a teacher assuaged my anxieties about college: I would survive, he explained, because I was someone who was dedicated to learning for the sake of learning. I can remember nodding and thinking of how much I enjoyed […]
BY LAUREN COVALUCCI A serious revelation on student leadership on campus. When I’m not writing groundbreaking op-eds for the Independent, I’m performing and choreographing for two on-campus dance companies. When I’m not doing that, I’m running their publicity, and have been a publicity officer for two years. And after two years of waking up thirty […]
The Indy interviews the Harvard First Generation Student Union. Seniors Daniel Lobo of Quincy and Jesse Sanchez of Adams sat down with the Indy to discuss the formation, motivation, and mission behind the Harvard First Generation Student Union. They hope the group will gain official recognition this semester, but that’s not their only goal. From supporting first […]
BY XANNI BROWN Limited celebration at men’s soccer’s fall fiesta. Harvard Men’s Soccer opened their season with a pair of games against Iona and Davidson, the latter constituting an apparently annual event called the “Fall Fiesta.” While both games resulted in Crimson losses, there was significant improvement over the course of the weekend. Having fallen […]
BY MEGHAN BROOKS What Harvard football fans are missing. The eldest of my brothers began college last week, arriving at Boston College an excited freshman as my mother, two aunts, and numerous cousins and other family of uncertain relation had before him. In a rush of nostalgia, my mother engineered a family trip to last […]
A friendly bazaar. Friday afternoon, hundreds of undergraduates streamed into the Quad. Mostly freshmen and upperclassmen student organization leaders, they came by shuttle, bike, and on foot to the annual Activities Fair, an event organized by the College’s Office of Student Life. Designed to expose freshmen in particular to the 538 listed co-curricular and extracurricular […]
BY MANIK BHATIA A hard pill to swallow. For a country that prides itself on its advancement in technology, infrastructure, and research, the United States has unsurprisingly been responsible for a number of the most significant medical advances in the last century from the life-saving (chemotherapy) to the life-improving (Pepto-Bismol). Modern medicine plays a vital […]