River Parties
Harvard may be going through a bit of a social dry spell. But is that really such a bad thing?
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The Classes You Need to Take Before You Graduate
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 […]
French Kissing
I want a guy to slap the shit out of me. I know, ok. I know. Just let it sit there for a moment.
GO BIG* OR GO HOME
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 […]
Losing the Plot
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 […]
The Place You Call Home
Moving across the world to ‘find yourself’ is not a clever paradox.
Man in the Orange Crocs and His BerryLine Shop
The story of BerryLine illuminates the unpredictable nature of career paths. A frozen yogurt business was not the original plan of one of its founders, Matthew Wallace—he went from working in research labs to cooking in the Mass Ave kitchen—but it became a central aspect of his life. “It’s like one of those life lessons—you have that thought as a five-year-old, ten-year-old, twenty-year-old, of where your career is heading, and you just don’t know what’s around the corner,” Wallace says.
Concentrating on Careers
It’s tempting for students to study in preparation for a career rather than for the sake of learning. To a certain extent, this attitude makes sense. After all, what good is it to follow your academic and intellectual passions if there’s no way those passions can secure you a steady job or a spot in a graduate school once your four years are up?
Oh, the Places You Could Go!
Options. People always say that after college, you have options. At Harvard, however, it seems that students choose to pursue a narrower range of paths than the world offers. At the end of each academic year, Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS) asks graduating students to take the Harvard College Senior Survey. The statistics from […]
Op-Ed: Coding Should Be the New Language Requirement
In its mission statement, Harvard College aims to “educate the […] citizen-leaders of our society” and create “conditions for social transformation” by imbuing its students with the skills and experiences to do just that: lead and transform. For centuries, Harvard has successfully fulfilled this promise, educating everyone from the second President of the United States […]