Shopping Week was killed by an administration more concerned with Teaching Fellows’ schedules than students, and now students’ schedules are suffering. Last spring, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to end Harvard College’s long-standing flexible week of class registration known as Shopping Week in favor of a far more opaque and restrictive pre-registration […]
As a response to the termination of Shopping Week last May, popular narrative maligns the administration and hyperbolizes the undergraduates’ suffering, leaving the voices of Harvard’s graduate students unheard. Teaching Fellows incur major costs as a result of Shopping Week that cannot be dismissed. TFs aren’t made aware of whether or not they’re employed until […]
Harvard breeds countless courses that students not only struggle to complete, but to even acquire spots to begin with each semester. STEM concentrations are infamous for their course exclusivity: students often must have a specific combination of prerequisites and a dash of luck in the course lottery to gain access to the golden gates of […]
On the last Saturday night of the summer, hundreds of first-years clustered outside Sanders Theater, poised to cheer on their classmates at the annual first-year talent show. The show, hosted each year by the Crimson Key Society, brought together the Class of 2026 for a night of poking fun at Harvard. Bobby McCarthy ’23 and […]
Last Thursday night in Lowell’s basement, Jaeschel Acheampong ’24 (“YoungJae”) debuted his rap album JAESCHEL. He exuded a nervous energy while many of his friends chatted quietly during the first few tracks. But as he paused to explain the backstory behind each song, he built up steam and showed flashes of his performance prowess. When […]
“Fashion is instant language,” Miuccia Prada wrote. Not every member of the Class of 2026 may speak the language of the head designer of Prada, but they know that what they wear is how they immediately present themselves to a new campus. While some first years have aspiring fashion goals, and others are simply looking […]
Moving in is painful. Students get everything out of storage, wait for their boxes from HUA, rearrange furniture for maximum space (and try to hide the hole you made in a wall from your bedpost). With different rooming situations and different House layouts, the one constant you will always see is sweat. This year, Cambridge […]
Just as the Harvard community thought itself free of the clutches of COVID-19, it must now deal with the looming threat of yet another viral disease: Monkeypox. Described as the distant cousin of the much more perilous smallpox, Monkeypox is a rare viral infection that causes flu-like symptoms such as fever and chills, as well […]
“The rumor on the team….” was a phrase student athletes repeated several times when asked about one of Harvard Athletics’ newest decisions: to get rid of the tradition of fitness tests during preseason training. Grace Allen ’24, a junior on the women’s volleyball team, mentioned hearing “rumors in the weeks leading up to the start […]
Last year, I wrote an article about how Harvard’s rich abundance of opportunity often went to waste as over 60 percent of its graduates entered the workforce in one of three industries: finance, consulting, and technology. I was frustrated with how the high starting salaries of three industries enthralled so many students to abandon their […]