At Harvard, the term “gems” is used by students to describe courses that, like a gemstone, are desirable to all: minimal work for an easy A. With a hungering survival instinct to maintain the highest possible GPA, it is no wonder that Harvard students might prefer the easiest classes. Often, students turn to General Education […]
Kate: I refuse to take notes on paper in class. The moment I walk into any lecture, my bag hits the ground and I quickly open my computer. My Google Drive tab is already pulled up, and within seconds, I create a new document in its assigned folder and begin pre-formatting the page. On the […]
Last March in “Family Matters,” Drake infamously said, “Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go hand him a Grammy,” during their back-and-forth diss tracks. When the Grammys rolled around, Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” won five Grammys, including awards for both song and music video. While “Not Like Us” was widely praised, Drake’s comment raises […]
“Turn on, tune in, drop out.” In other words: use your intuition, connect, and never conform. This mantra of psychedelic counterculture was coined by Harvard Psychology professor Timothy Leary, who taught from 1959-1963. Leary was in charge of the Harvard Psilocybin Project, a set of experiments where often both researcher and subject ingested psychedelic substances. […]
Gruesome battles, horrific confrontations, broken alliances, and the looming threat of another world war? Nope, it’s just blocking season for Harvard first-year students. With Housing Day just around the corner, it is time for this year’s batch of first-years to scramble around looking for their ride-or-die squad. What seems to be a simple decision is […]
More often than not, I love spontaneity. However, a weekend getaway spontaneously becoming my first-ever solo trip was not the type of spontaneity I typically embrace. As a person who “doesn’t usually seek out alone time,” I was about to embark on a four-day weekend in Madrid, Spain completely on my own. I confronted this […]
This year, for the first time in my life, I voluntarily tuned into the Super Bowl. I am probably the furthest one can get from a football fan, but after days of listening to the frequent murmurs of excitement that Kendrick Lamar would be taking the stage during halftime, I decided it would be worthwhile […]
Last December, my classmates and I had the privilege of attending the Boston premiere of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet. We had just spent an entire semester in “Bob Dylan: The Classic” exploring the man, myth, and legend. True to its name, the course was housed in the Classics department […]