This spring break, the Harvard Rugby Football Club travelled across the pond for a tour of southern Europe. The trip—which included stops in Toulouse, France, and Barcelona, Spain—allowed the team to train and play with leading European leagues, exploring the world of rugby outside the United States. The trip came in the midst of the […]
The paper was in my pocket when I woke. I had not put it there—or I had put it there and forgotten, which amounts to the same confession. I unfolded it at the desk in the grey light and read it again: a name, an address, the handwriting almost mine but tilted slightly and with […]
Riding the high of Harvard College Housing Day, first-year students have quickly been confronted with another pivotal College milestone: course registration. On Wednesday, April 1, the course registration portal opened for first-years, sophomores, and juniors to select their fall 2026 classes. For first-years, these choices carry added weight, with the looming October concentration declaration deadline […]
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Harvard Square has always been a place of constant motion—students rushing to class, tourists pausing at storefronts, and locals weaving through the familiar maze of brick and cobblestone. Amidst the churn of coffee shops and bookstores, two flower shops have quietly bloomed. Petali Flowers and Brattle Square Florist have each carved out a small, fragrant […]
“Remember kids, everyone should have at least one hobby that gives them carpal tunnel.”
On Monday, March 30, in an email to Harvard faculty, Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh announced changes to the grading policy proposal she shared in February. The amendments included factoring in students taking a class pass/fail when calculating the 20% +4 grading cap, adding SAT+ to the existing SAT/UNSAT scale, and waiting to implement […]
As the weather becomes warmer and students swap out their puffer jackets for tank tops, the usual conversations and internal pressures around the “summer body” have reemerged. But this year, the discourse feels different. Instead of the usual diet culture and gym routine talks, a whole new set of tools has entered the conversation: GLP-1 […]
More than a thousand years ago, sometime in the 12th century, a destructive invader by the name of Muhammad Bakhtiar Khilji destroyed one of the great Indian universities of the time: Nalanda University, located in present-day Bihar. But whereas Nalanda was destroyed by a foreign invader, Harvard University continues to be under siege by forces […]
Describing my gap year as an annus horribilis is cruelly ironic, but given the circumstances surrounding it, it is an accurate reflection of what was the most tumultuous year of my life. The phrase annus horribilis itself was brought to prominence by Queen Elizabeth II in her own reflections on the year 1992, which she […]