Some musings on the things Harvard Professors can’t teach you By ALAYA AYALA The week after Thanksgiving is often the week when all hell starts to break loose for Harvard college students. Suddenly every essay is due, final projects are in the works, and Reading Period is just around the corner. Procrastinating is […]
By Aidan Fitzsimmons Philosophically, the concept of counterculture is more interesting and fundamental to human life than may originally be considered. Counterculture is defined as a subculture created in opposition to mass culture, middle class values, consumerism, mainstream media, the mores of a previous generation, the cultural hegemony of a dominant group, and other […]
A Message to Young Voters By JAYCEE YEGHER While voting memes are hilarious and fun to share on your social media accounts, remember that you actually have to get out there and vote to elicit real change. Memes have truly taken over the internet, and when politics are added to the mix, […]
Part Two By ALAYA AYALA Growing up, I’d never been one to put much stock into the supernatural. I stopped believing in things like fairy tales and Santa Claus when I was about five years old. One day, I must have asked too many questions and pushed my mom a little too far. That […]
Things go bump in the night on Ivy-League campuses, too By ALAYA AYALA 1.The Night: A period of time during which the sun does not shine upon Harvard. Upon being a student for little more than a year at Harvard, I have observed a truly terrifying trend at the school. It would […]
At least, for me, anyway. By ALAYA AYALA When I first got to Harvard, I would do my makeup every day. At the bare minimum, I’d wear some BB cream, fill in my eyebrows, throw on some concealer and mascara and be out the door. Other days I’d go all out with a full face […]
Third Treetise By AIDAN FITZSIMONS For my third tree article, I’m gonna go a bit sappier. Now that the leaves are falling, and the trees are revealing their bare truth as fortresses of cold, reaching tendrils of bark, it is a good time to think about trees in a new light. When we […]
Second Treetise By AIDAN FITZSIMONS Oak-ay everyone, I’m back with my bi-weekly tree talk. Two weeks ago, I started this column off with my favorite tree in Harvard Yard, the Emerson Evergreen Tree in Sever Quad. This week, we’re going to kick the skill level up several notches. The Emerson Tree is a […]
Angsty Thoughts on Too Many Expectations By: ALAYA AYALA For me, coming to Harvard was as freeing as it was binding. I was free from the fetters of my high school responsibilities, free from the city where I was born and raised, and even as I hated to admit it, I was […]
Class-Schedule Calculations By ALAYA AYALA This semester, the new class schedule has caused trouble for some students, with many struggling to figure out exactly why it’s been so hard to settle into the new routine. Now that we’re a month into our semester, the Indy has sat down and done some calculations to […]