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 […]
COVID-19 pushes Harvard’s libraries away from physical books, for a while.
They refused to lose an entire year to virtual education. They refused to relinquish precious college time to the whims of a microbe they could not control. And they refused to let go of their ambitions. So instead, they used the pandemic to pursue them.
Moving across the world to ‘find yourself’ is not a clever paradox.
Students have concerns about the implementation of Harvard’s plans for this fall semester.
Where can a college student find happiness? In a classroom, on the river at sunset, or at a dinner table in Annenberg, a Harvard student might reply. For the students who had to learn remotely this past year, countless opportunities for happiness await them with the return to in-person education this fall. Harvard professor and […]
Harvard offers 50 concentrations, yet food or cuisine or cooking do not make an appearance in any of their titles. However, some alumni have leveraged their Harvard educations to enter careers in cooking. The Independent spoke to a trailblazer of modern American cuisine, Chef Jeremiah Tower ’66, GSD ’69, and famous internet food entertainer, Nick Digiovanni ’19, to learn how Harvard impacted their journeys into the world of cuisine.