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?”
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?
ENGLISH CLR: Introduction to Screenwriting, taught by Musa Syeed “Musa, a screenwriter and filmmaker who’s been to Sundance multiple times, teaches this class in the fall. I took it in the fall of 2020 and did not realize how much I learned about writing and life, in general, until afterwards. I had to apply for […]
I want a guy to slap the shit out of me. I know, ok. I know. Just let it sit there for a moment.
She carefully approached us in the way one does when they do not not know how to tell their ridiculous story. I was catching up with her roommates—not in the “what have you been up to?” way, but more like they were a certain number of drinks ahead of me, and to keep up, I […]
At the end of World War I and the pandemic of 1918, Harvard students rejoiced. The woes of the war—in which 11,319 University alumni, undergraduates, and faculty fought—and the grip of influenza—which infected 258 students in one year—finally lifted from the shoulders of the undergraduate body. Campus quarantine periods ended, distancing guidelines subsided, and masks […]
Moving across the world to ‘find yourself’ is not a clever paradox.