Welcome back to campus, everyone! As you all have been finalizing your fall semester classes, flipping coins with your roommates to see who gets the double, and saying goodbye to your friends and family, likely, many of you haven’t had the time to create a new playlist for the school year. Music will play a […]
Mitchell Saron ’23 has loved sword-fighting since before he can remember. An early introduction to the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings franchises stoked that fire, leading Saron to attempt to duel everyone in his life: “I had this huge lightsaber and toy sword collection, and I would always ask [my parents] to fight […]
This fall, I’m ready to declare my concentration as “Olympics” with a secondary in “Navigating NBC Peacock.” It’s been a long, studious summer of laying on the couch, judging Olympians and thinking, “I could probably do that.” Now that the Paris Olympics are over and we trickle back to Cambridge, it’s time to get off […]
Summer might be the offseason for college athletes, but it still brought some major updates to Harvard sports. Every four years, one sporting event eclipses all other summer competitions: the Summer Olympics. Harvard was extremely successful in the Paris Olympics—it was one of the most successful performances by the school’s students in its history. And […]
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games were historic for Harvard. Athletes that currently represent or formerly competed for the Crimson won a total of 13 medals, the highest medal count for the university since the 1896 Olympic Games. This year’s games also saw an 82% increase in viewership compared to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, amassing over […]
The terms “brat summer,” “Kamalanomenon,” and “coconut tree” haven’t exactly been the easiest election jargon to explain to older family members, colleagues, and friends. Today, young people across the U.S. and around the world have embraced these terms as they’ve been bestowed upon the current U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. In today’s political landscape, social […]