Sunlight floods in from the Dunster fifth floor’s angled skylight as Max Ingersoll settles into his makeshift meditation space. He starts breathing in a cadence, focuses on how his body feels, and tries to imagine himself dying. As he thinks about his own life ending, he tries to make himself feel physically hotter. He imagines […]
True love. Whether or not we see ourselves as romantic types, it’s worth thinking about. Why? Well Valentine’s Day is here, but regardless, love just might be the most powerful force in our lives. Take beauty for example. Beauty brings untold opportunity and prestige. Yet gorgeous people are utterly devastated, left bitter by failing to […]
In mid-December I received an email from Harvard that I did not expect. After several months of encouraging students to receive Covid-19 boosters, Harvard was making boosters mandatory. In the email, Harvard told students to “not call or email Harvard University Health Services with questions,” but didn’t say where students should direct their questions and […]
What’s the difference between friendship and romance? Should your partner also be your best friend? Can you be friends with your ex? We spoke with Dr. Love—er, Dr. Holly Parker—to find out. Dr. Parker isn’t just a self-professed “love expert” who writes quizzes for Cosmopolitan. She has a Harvard Ph.D. in experimental psychopathology, is a […]
Happiness, to RuQuan Brown ’24, simply looks like being a good father and husband one day. These two goals typically stand as supporting actors to larger career ambitions. Yet Brown’s childhood exposures to gun violence led him to reevaluate his desire for the two. Growing up between Seattle, Dallas, and Washington, D.C., he lost his […]
Almost two thirds of American adults vow to lose weight, exercise more, or alter their eating habits for New Year’s. Statistically speaking, you probably did, too. Despite the well-intentioned results of health-oriented New Year’s Resolutions, few of them stick. “Health” resolutions also breed a diet culture that might cause more harm than good. For instance, […]
Twenty-five degrees fahrenheit, a slight easterly breeze, and the season’s first snow: auspicious conditions for a nude lap. With gates agape, Harvard Yard welcomed hundreds of students and dozens of voyeurs for “Primal Scream.” This bi-annual tradition originated in the 1960s as a gathering at the end of reading week in which repressed Harvard students […]
“In a Presidential, high-turnout, election, you have 58,000 people vote in Cambridge. In a low-turnout gubernatorial election… you have 46,000 people vote, but in a municipal election, you have maybe 23,000 people.” That’s Burhan Azeem, MIT graduate and newly-elected member of Cambridge City Council. “The city council… might write off Harvard students, as people who […]
“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 […]