You know when someone opens their mouth, and you can just tell the bullshit they are about to spew will piss you off? He saunters over and shoulders his way into my conversation. If he had thought for only a moment about his target demographic, maybe he would realize how my talk of bisexual pride […]
And just like that, Zoom high school came to an end. The lucky undergraduate class of 2025 began our first of four years at Harvard with an introduction from Ivy Yard Dean Katie Denzon to the common phenomenon of impostor syndrome. Denzon spoke of the tendency for first-year students to characterize ourselves as “other,” believing […]
Harvard may be going through a bit of a social dry spell. But is that really such a bad thing?
ENGLISH CLR: Introduction to Screenwriting, taught by Musa Syeed “Musa, a screenwriter and filmmaker who’s been to Sundance multiple times, teaches this class in the fall. I took it in the fall of 2020 and did not realize how much I learned about writing and life, in general, until afterwards. I had to apply for […]
I want a guy to slap the shit out of me. I know, ok. I know. Just let it sit there for a moment.
She carefully approached us in the way one does when they do not not know how to tell their ridiculous story. I was catching up with her roommates—not in the “what have you been up to?” way, but more like they were a certain number of drinks ahead of me, and to keep up, I […]
At the end of World War I and the pandemic of 1918, Harvard students rejoiced. The woes of the war—in which 11,319 University alumni, undergraduates, and faculty fought—and the grip of influenza—which infected 258 students in one year—finally lifted from the shoulders of the undergraduate body. Campus quarantine periods ended, distancing guidelines subsided, and masks […]
Moving across the world to ‘find yourself’ is not a clever paradox.
The story of BerryLine illuminates the unpredictable nature of career paths. A frozen yogurt business was not the original plan of one of its founders, Matthew Wallace—he went from working in research labs to cooking in the Mass Ave kitchen—but it became a central aspect of his life. “It’s like one of those life lessons—you have that thought as a five-year-old, ten-year-old, twenty-year-old, of where your career is heading, and you just don’t know what’s around the corner,” Wallace says.
It’s tempting for students to study in preparation for a career rather than for the sake of learning. To a certain extent, this attitude makes sense. After all, what good is it to follow your academic and intellectual passions if there’s no way those passions can secure you a steady job or a spot in a graduate school once your four years are up?