Between concentration requirements, grades, extracurricular activities, and the general malaise that comes from being a college student during the plague years, it can be easy to develop academic tunnel vision. Even at the best of times, it can be difficult to get involved with anything that falls outside the gravitational pull of your primary field […]
1. An email from your dean with any updates relating to “health” 2. The perpetual fear of being kicked off campus at any point in time— a March 2.0 3. The other encroaching fear that your social abilities are steadily deteriorating and you will never be normal in social interactions again because you never leave […]
As the pandemic continues, artists are finding new and creative ways to express their own views as traditional American societal values seem to be undermined and reshaped. Speaking from her own experience, Harvard artist Devonne Pitts ‘21 talks about her experience during the pandemic as a director and a writer. Currently a senior in the […]
I’m not big on making universal statements of truth, but I’m about to do it anyway. The thought of human flesh being used for anything other than covering human insides is extremely unsettling. You might only know of the practice as a horror movie trope used by films like Silence of the Lambs and Midsommar […]
With the shift to virtual learning and working from home, many Americans are sleeping quite differently than they did before the pandemic. For Harvard students, this means no more 6:00 a.m alarms for sports practice; no more late-night study sessions in Lamont. No more walks to the dining hall to grab a bite before class, […]
What do you think of when you picture an anthropologist? Is it a suave, Indiana Jones type with a fancy hat and a bad attitude? Perhaps it’s someone in an unfamiliar place, frantically scribbling notes about rites of passage and kinship structures? Or, maybe, you can’t see anyone at all because you have no idea […]