The other day, sipping on a macchiato while struggling to finish my art history final paper in a café near the Sorbonne, I overheard two abroad Americans chatting. They were discussing their excitement to return to the States—eager to see friends and family, ready to be home. As I listened to them rationalize why they […]
Coucou Mes Chéries, Ça va? I simply cannot believe my time abroad is ending in a mere two weeks. Complete and utter denial is setting in. While studying abroad was definitely not a spontaneous decision, if you told me a year ago that I’d be taking weekend trips to Mallorca, I would’ve laughed in your […]
Each day begins the same way: a diagonal cut across Plympton Street near the Harvard Book Store, my head quickly snapping sideways to check for oncoming cars. From there, I pass beneath the iron gate by Wigglesworth C—its outline etched into muscle memory—as I make my way through the Yard. These gestures aren’t calculated, but […]
This summer, Eliot House will begin to undergo a major transformation, forcing all of us proud residents to relocate to overflow housing for the next couple of years. While the community and people will still be here (thankfully), it’s hard not to feel a little sentimental about leaving the building itself behind. Eliot is more […]
On the opening night of “9 to 5: The Musical,” a large audience gathered in Agassiz Theater to watch Harvard’s musical adaptation of the famous 1980 movie. Patricia Resnick and Colin Higgins wrote the original screenplay, which Resnick later adapted into a book (script) with country star Dolly Parton, who also provided the soundtrack and […]
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin ’00 A beautiful novel that explores the depths of friendship over decades between two childhood friends, Sadie and Sam, who begin creating video games together alongside Marx, Sam’s college roommate. The novel is partially set in Cambridge—Sam and Marx go to Harvard, and Sadie attends MIT. The […]
This past weekend, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club put up a sparkling example of theatre at its best in the Loeb Experimental Theater. One of the semester’s final theater productions, HRDC’s production of PigPen Theatre Co.’s “The Old Man and the Old Moon,” was near-perfect. Directed by Ria Cuéllar-Koh ’26, the show was light-hearted in tone […]