11.16.21: Digitized
There’s Been a Glitch in the System
Texts, Threats, and Transparency: How the Ivy League Bomb Threats Affected Students
You’re a First-Year at Yale. It’s a typical Friday afternoon. In between classes, you and a few friends decide to stop at Payne Whitney Gym for a quick workout. None of you are checking your school emails. Why would you? Most of the emails you receive are just fodder anyway. Suddenly, you see a text […]
Technique: A Review
The Harvard Ballet Company’s triumphant return to stage
It’s not your typical Thursday at the Harvard Dance Center. Audience members swarm the double-doors, grateful for any respite from the chilly November night, and they are more than delighted to witness the first in-person performance of the Harvard Ballet Company in over a year. Jackets are shed, seats taken, and phones turned off. All […]
Counter/Point: Tech Ethics
Point: Tech Ethics Are Needed Now More Than Ever By Ryan Golemme ’23 When I took CS50: Introduction to Computer Science in the fall of 2020, there was a tacked-on ethics lesson in the final week as a part of Harvard’s Embedded EthiCS program. Though it was merely two people flatly talking over Zoom, and […]
Boomers or Zoomers?
Investigating Harvard professors’ social media usage
Have you ever gotten nearly 13,000 likes on a tweet? No? Me neither. Believe it or not, some of Harvard’s most beloved professors have. Indeed, Economics Professor Jason Furman’s most popular tweet has received 13.2k likes and 2.4k retweets—even more likes than Justin Timberlake earns. “I try to generally stick to things where I bring […]
Q&A with Harvard Tiktokers
On the viral app’s growing influence and their own gateways to fame
TikTok, an app for creating and sharing short videos, has blown up over the past few years. Currently, it has over 1 billion users worldwide and has been downloaded more than 200 million times in the United States. The Independent spoke with four Harvard TikTokers who have amassed large followings on the platform: Brad Wolf […]
“Remember Harvard Marriage Pact?”
Two MIT students gathered personal data of hundreds of Harvard students – but does that matter?
Early in the evening on October 31st, hundreds of Harvard students got an email with their “match.” More than a month prior, each of them filled out a survey with a variety of very odd questions: Would you be okay with your partner making more money than you? How dominant or submissive would you say […]
The Virtual ‘Boo’!
How social media has made us more antisocial
If you say you’ve never been “ghosted” on social media, you’re lying. It’s when response times grow longer, content gets drier, and ultimately all communication comes to a halt. We have all been both the perpetrators and victims of ghosting in some form or another, and the minute we start to normalize the act of […]