The trials and tribulations of long-distance relationships are nothing new, but what do you get when you mix them with a global pandemic? COVID-19 has tested couples in unforeseen ways, causing a sort of “make or break” mentality for their relationships this past year. Couples have been forced to either quarantine together or remain distanced […]
Practice social distancing. Limit in-person contact. Zoom as much as you can. For the past year, health experts have advised us to fly solo. But for those who have spent the greater part of their lives on a team—such as Harvard’s varsity athletes—the concept of self-isolation has proven exceptionally difficult. In the fall, the College […]
Professor Elisa New and Larry Summers are very different people. “Larry is an extrovert and I’m an introvert; he likes sports and competition and I do not,” New tells the Independent. “We are in many ways a dramatic illustration of how opposites attract.” Summers was President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006. He served […]
In the Victorian era people often used flowers to communicate. Meanings were assigned to flowers. They were used to send secret messages that could not be said aloud in the culture. “Floriography” allowed rules to be broken in an alluring, lusciously enigmatic way. A woman would know a man “fancied” her through a particular flower […]
The Independent asked you, Harvard students, to start off your week by answering the over-simplified question: what is love? There was, however, a caveat: your response could only be one word. To answer this question, respondents had to ask themselves a multitude of other questions first: what does it feel like to be loved? What […]
Harvard’s General Education (Gen Ed) program’s website invites its students to “Explore new ideas. Expand your horizons. Engage with the world.” It instructs faculty that their proposals for course claims should be “geared toward non-specialists” and “not an introduction to a scholarly discipline.” In short, Gen Eds are orthogonal to the main thrust of anyone’s […]
On January 20th, students received an email from the University Health Services (HUHS) indicating that Harvard had acquired shipments of and received approval to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine. Throughout the nation, underdog states like West Virginia are leading in vaccine distribution without priority-based phases, while wealthy states like California lag behind and face issues with […]
Like most, January 6th began with sunshine. The city often experiences winter differently than most places— it feels like the swamp underneath the city radiates heat and the cool of winter gets wrapped up in its blanket of humidity. I was there on that day to feel it. In the sun, it felt easy to […]
Boots don’t have a good formal definition or a clean etymological lineage. Simply, it’s understood that boots must cover the entire foot and part of the leg. In the transition from the worst part of winter to the slightly less worse part of winter, boots reign supreme among all footwear. Demonstrated by the costar of […]