“You think the United States is utopian?” Abdullah Bannan ’23 responded to my poorly worded question with a polite yet warranted laugh. “It’s interesting, because coming here I assumed that the United States is safer than Syria,” he said. “But I have to worry about things here that I never had to back home.” Bannan […]
Point: Tech Ethics Are Needed Now More Than Ever By Ryan Golemme ’23 When I took CS50: Introduction to Computer Science in the fall of 2020, there was a tacked-on ethics lesson in the final week as a part of Harvard’s Embedded EthiCS program. Though it was merely two people flatly talking over Zoom, and […]
Early in the evening on October 31st, hundreds of Harvard students got an email with their “match.” More than a month prior, each of them filled out a survey with a variety of very odd questions: Would you be okay with your partner making more money than you? How dominant or submissive would you say […]
If you say you’ve never been “ghosted” on social media, you’re lying. It’s when response times grow longer, content gets drier, and ultimately all communication comes to a halt. We have all been both the perpetrators and victims of ghosting in some form or another, and the minute we start to normalize the act of […]
Sally Sorte has experienced all types of education. From working in resource-deficient elementary schools and high schools, to establishing a charter school and ultimately studying at HBS, she has learned, first-hand, of the unscrupulous distribution of wealth and education in the United States. After graduating from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, Sorte joined Teach […]
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.