Is Yale better than Harvard? (The last two football games would say so.) This past weekend, I visited one of my friends at Yale to compete in a club squash round-robin on Saturday. However, I also got to experience New Haven, talk to students, take a walk around campus, and go out at night. Before […]
Last month, Harvard’s Class of 2028—the first to enroll since the ban on race-based affirmative action—began their freshman year. The past few weeks on campus have been marked by discussions following Harvard’s release of the Class of 2028’s racial demographics, which showed that the share of Black and brown students remained relatively stable compared to […]
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. This mock-Latin aphorism, translated as “Don’t let the bastards grind you down,” plays a central role in Margaret Atwood’s feminist novel The Handmaid’s Tale, a commonly banned novel in several U.S. states including Virginia, Texas, Florida, and Oregon. As in many totalitarian societies, Atwood’s fictionalized state of Gilead forbids females from […]
It starts with boredom—it always does. I’m walking from Boylston to Cabot, scanning for updates on Instagram, Snapchat, and iMessage, but I have run out of content to consume. Out of the corner of my eye, I glimpse the magenta icon tucked away in the Recently Added section of my App Library. Ignoring my better […]
By the time we arrived at MIT, the frats were closing down. “Fratlantis,” a juvenile play on the words “Frat” and “Atlantis,” hosted by Phi Beta Epsilon (PBE) on Sept. 14, publicized a rather early start time of 10 p.m. In our attempt to be fashionably late, we completely missed the main function of the […]
It was almost 9 in the morning when my roommate paused in front of my open bedroom door on her way to class. She was ready for the day: coffee in hand, hair done, and backpack squarely on her shoulders. She blinked bewilderedly, looking past me to examine my spotless, sparkling bedroom: freshly made bed, […]
Instagram and travel magazines have sold us a picture-perfect image of what travel should be: lounging with your family in the Caribbean, hiking mountains with friends, or hanging out with your lover in Mykonos. But what if your friends never seem to have free time? And what if that dream lover is literally a dream? […]
It was approaching dusk on Aug. 22. On the Zeacliff Trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, daylight slipped away as my FOP Trip 19 trudged deeper into the canopy of Hardwoods and Conifers with wobbling rocks and slippery roots threatening to trip us at every step. Songs about “Da Moose” and “The Princess […]
Every August, my family spends a week at the Jersey Shore, down the southernmost tip of Cape May. Politics tend to work their way into our conversations, and even the smallest differences in our views play out in full force. This year, with the presidential election right around the corner, we spent hours speculating Harris’s […]
Dear Class of 2028, Welcome to Harvard! This will be quite an exciting year. Take it from two girls who just experienced it—in the end, you will look back and think, woah. But amidst brand-new friendships, rigorous coursework, varying degrees of nightlife, and intense seasonal changes, it can be challenging to find time to take […]