Harvard students usually fear stolen laundry, getting quadded, coffee shortages in the dining hall, fire alarm tests in the dead of night, and the freshman flu. . If these are the only types of horrors you have experienced at Harvard, consider yourself lucky because campus is a much spookier place than most people think. Harvard […]
Harvard students usually fear stolen laundry, getting quadded, coffee shortages in the dining hall, fire alarm tests in the dead of night, and the freshman flu. . If these are the only types of horrors you have experienced at Harvard, consider yourself lucky because campus is a much spookier place than most people think. Harvard […]
Passionate, decisive, and gritty. These are the three words Steven Wang ’24, CEO and co-founder of investment startup Dub, uses to describe himself. “You have to have a vicious belief, to know what you’re doing to drop out. It’s dedicating your life to what I’m doing right now. My life is essentially my company. To […]
When my little brother moved into North Texas’ Grapevine-Colleyville School District (GCISD), he had a hard time making friends. Of course, that’s normal for any tween moving schools, but his trouble had less to do with his personality, and more to do with his new friend’s parents disliking his name. My sweet brother is named […]
The recent overturning of Roe v. Wade has made maternal and reproductive health care even more essential in places where it remains legalized such as within Harvard campus. Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) promises to provide reproductive care services for its students, but they fail to do so in an equitable fashion, creating burdens and […]
On September 22, 2022, one of Harvard’s most well-known dropouts Mark Zuckerberg ’06 and wife Priscilla Chan ’07 unveiled the Kempner Institute, a human and artificial intelligence research facility, and an accompanying $500 million grant. This gift was prorated over fifteen years and comprises over 10% of the total private research funding that Harvard receives […]
College admission reaction videos never fail to make me cry. When I was applying to college, I would watch them surreptitiously in the dark of my bedroom, as if pressing repeat on the shaky glow of my phone screen would will my own acceptance into existence. Even now, it’s cliché, but I find them cathartic—in […]
Marbella Marlo ’24: Manny! I was just admiring some artwork in one of Harvard’s art museums, the Sackler museum, and felt the need to text you. Just last week, the Harvard College Overdose Prevention and Education released a 23-page proposal urging Harvard to rename the museum. What are your thoughts? Manuel Yepes ’24: I was […]
Harvard students pride themselves on being academically and emotionally intelligent individuals. We are keen to impress and to portray ourselves as the strong, competent leaders we are taught to become. The Harvard atmosphere amplifies the stigmas against crying. With the heightened pressures to live up to the Harvard name, many students feel the need to […]
Over the last several weeks, the Harvard Pakistani Students Association (PSA) has been raising money in response to the record-breaking flooding afflicting millions of Pakistani people and their land. PSA has requested Venmo donations from Harvard students and faculty, seeking financial aid for Pakistani flood victims. In a shared Google Doc, PSA explains they direct […]