Less than a ten minute walk from the quad was a photoshoot for the fall marketing campaign of Ouimillie (pronounced we-mill-ee). Ouimillie is a fully women-owned and operated interior design and fashion boutique based in Cambridge, and the boutique was started by Millicent Culter, pushing the focus of fashion towards curating small, local designers across […]
Two weeks ago I talked about the danger of tunnel vision, and how solely focusing on one end goal often causes students to lose sight of the big picture and miss out on opportunities to explore fascinating prospects. But there are two sides to every story. Will McQuiston ’24 is the student embodiment of hard […]
Though much of the first semester has already gone by, students are still guaranteed to ask the most typical beginning-of-the-year question—what classes are you taking? This attempt to get to know each other through our course load has become the new how are you? To forge connection, we naturally look for overlap. Bonding over shared […]
Harvard’s international community continues to bring extraordinary levels of talent and brilliance to the student body, even after not being allowed on campus for an entire school year. Vladimir Aleksandrosrovich Petrov joined the Class of 2024 this year after transferring from Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239. The twenty-year-old matherite and Mathematics concentrator moved […]
This year the impossible happened. The Harvard Endowment finally announced in a September email from President Bacow to undergraduates that it would no longer be engaging in partnerships with funds that had substantial holdings in fossil fuel equity. This announcement is the result of grassroots student activism that has been knocking on Harvard’s door for almost a decade.
I’ve been wanting to start this column for many reasons, but meeting Keith Raffel was undoubtedly the deciding factor. After meeting with me over Zoom mid-August to review my course selection, to which he supported each of my class choices (and perhaps with a little too much optimization), we grabbed lunch in the Mather Dining Hall […]
“I think they were winning when I left. They won, right?”
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?