It’s hard to exist in this semi-digital reality without hearing of “strategies to avoid Zoom fatigue” and “the importance of daily walks.” The self-care suggestions come from our family and the news, and they are all over the internet—even TikTok recommends you take a break and get some fresh air when you’ve been scrolling for […]
The trials and tribulations of long-distance relationships are nothing new, but what do you get when you mix them with a global pandemic? COVID-19 has tested couples in unforeseen ways, causing a sort of “make or break” mentality for their relationships this past year. Couples have been forced to either quarantine together or remain distanced […]
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 […]