Vice President Kamala Harris made history this year as the first woman to be Vice President of the United States, inspiring women and girls all over the country by shattering the glass ceiling and disrupting the pattern of men who preceded her. As Kamala Harris steps into her new role with President Joe Biden by […]
1. An email from your dean with any updates relating to “health” 2. The perpetual fear of being kicked off campus at any point in time— a March 2.0 3. The other encroaching fear that your social abilities are steadily deteriorating and you will never be normal in social interactions again because you never leave […]
I’m not big on making universal statements of truth, but I’m about to do it anyway. The thought of human flesh being used for anything other than covering human insides is extremely unsettling. You might only know of the practice as a horror movie trope used by films like Silence of the Lambs and Midsommar […]
Zoom breakout rooms: the tried and true method by which in-class, small group discussions are replicated in cyberspace. They’re virtual meeting spaces where ideas are seamlessly exchanged, and the discussions they facilitate are always moving, lively, and characterized by intellectual rigor. At least, that’s what my TF told me! In reality, Zoom breakout rooms are […]
The eve of my first interview felt like a mixture of Christmas Eve and Hallow’s Eve as I swung between feelings of elation and horror movie terror. One moment I was excited to have the opportunity to be a *gasp of delight* consultant, and the next I hoped they would reject me because I don’t […]
In 1897, Guglielmo Marconi obtained the first patent for a radio-based wireless telegraphy system. It was extremely basic, being able to do no more than transmit and receive Morse code, but that was enough to save about 700 people when the Titanic sank as early as 1912. Six years before that, in 1906, was the […]
On Monday, October 5, Harvard University started the phased opening of campus social spaces of Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center. As of the partial reopening of the campus for the fall session, social spaces have been, by and large, closed in an effort to reduce large-scale socialization. In the face of the […]
This summer, after a few of my girl friends and I began to accept our fates in taking GOV50, the Data Statistics course from hell, we did the natural thing: made group chats. The first thing sent over the Instagram group chat was GOV50’s Insta profile. With 82 posts and 740 followers, @gov50data labels itself […]
To be among the selected 40% of Harvard undergraduates living on-campus this semester, you had to agree to abide by the Residential Community Compact, as released by the Dean of Students Office. These guidelines have been shaping the lives of students currently in residence, as the administration strives to maintain a low infection rate. Recent […]
Rhodes Island is in danger. You must understand this fact, or nothing I am about to say will make any sense at all. Rhodes Island—no, not Rhode Island—is in terrible danger, and only you and your team of “operators” can save it. Some of the operators also work for Penguin Logistics. This may or may […]