08.26.21: Welcome Back! The Found Generation Roars into the 20’s
If you have ever moved into a dorm room, played spikeball with new friends in the Yard, or said hi to old ones at the Indy office, you know one thing is key: a soundtrack to play behind it all. As we all begin to settle into the new year, some of us saying hello […]
In the midst of the noise on campus this fall, enjoy the place you now get to experience in-person: Cambridge!
So, what’s new in the area? Where do I need to be?
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 […]
The art of performance has fundamentally changed over the past year and a half. Though COVID-19 forced artists to reimagine theatrics through a digital lens, the essential, electric quality of performance has been missing since Broadway went dark in March 2020. As we return in the fall, performance is starting to spark back up in […]
Harvard boasts 42 nation-leading Division I intercollegiate sports teams. Roughly one-fifth of undergraduates are varsity athletes, and almost 80% participate in some form of athletics on campus. This fall, after 17 months without Ivy League athletics, The Crimson will once again participate in competitions. Despite the prolonged absence of competition and on-campus training, many student-athletes […]
This summer, one pair of shoes changed my life: the “Nike x Sig Zane ACG Deschütz+” sandal. The name is a mouthful, but after saying it over a hundred times it rolls off the tongue. So without further ado, the Arts Editor of the Harvard Independent declares the “Nike x Sig Zane ACG Deschütz+” the […]
It goes without saying that the next nine months at Harvard will look different than any year before. The uncertainty that lies in attending college classes during a pandemic has forced students to drastically compromise their paths in their academic and professional lives. In particular, the Class of 2024 has experienced a year of unprecedented […]