What it means for a woman to casually date a woman for the first time. In October of last year, I turned off men. What I mean is, I clicked that little button on all my dating apps that allows you to remove the sometimes-kind, often-predatory men that haunt Tinder. What I mean is: I […]
I’m experiencing the worst jet lag of my life. I’ve never been 8 hours ahead of home. I got on a plane in New York 11am, and got off in Dubai the next morning. This is messing with my head. And of course I didn’t sleep at all on the plane. Our second flight, from […]
Typing from a body still trying to get over jetlag – long layovers do not come recommended – I am filled with elation at the opportunity to be a summer blogger for the Harvard Independent. As a low-income, first generation Latina who has never traveled abroad before, I am very excited to be able to […]
I read an article on Longreads a while ago by a food critic who said that out of all the drool-worthy things she gets paid to eat and review, her favorite food is chicken tenders. It is no secret that I, too, love chicken tenders. The best ones you can get near me (the intersection of East […]
Contrary to what my bio says, I am currently not in my suburban shoreline hometown of East Lyme, Connecticut. Instead, I am in my soon-to-be home away from home, Cambridge, Massachusetts. And what better way to spend this transition of a summer than doing what I love most in a city that I will soon […]
BY JACKIE HO On June 27th at 6pm, my father dropped my friends Joyce, Sarah, and I off at Pearson International Airport. The three of us were off to Reykjavik, Iceland for the start of a month of backpacking around Europe. It’s the type of trip I’ve been aspiring to go on since I went […]
BY YEHONG ZHU There’s this sentimental idea of traveling during your youth, when you’re still young enough for the world to make a lasting impression on you. As a result, a sense of collective wanderlust often descends upon college students—as if, grasping the ephemerality of their formative years, they want to see as much of […]
BY DENISE KWONG When we met, fellow Presidential Scholars, you helped me piece together America. When we met, you said your name, and I was too excited, too nervous, too intimidated, too eager, and too tired from the long plane flight to remember it, but I shook your hand anyway and told you mine. When […]
How the U.S.A. won the Women’s World Cup By PEYTON FINE Here is a quick little multiple choice question for all of you who watched the U.S. women’s soccer team become world champions last week: why did the U.S. win? The pure brilliance of Carli Lloyd The inspiring leadership of Abby Wambach The suspension […]
BY WILLY XIAO Inspired by David Foster Wallace’s “Shipping Out“ I have now seen a bright blue sky capped over an arid rooftop garden. Riding between buildings in a Disneyland-like tram, I have wafted through the salty breeze coasting in from the edges of a tidal mud flat. I have taken work breaks that involve 20 minutes of Dance-Dance Revolution immediately followed by two seared fish tacos […]