As Halloween rolls around, Harvard’s most terrifying fiends are not hiding under your bed. Instead, they are the “Sunday Scaries,” the anxiety-fueling monsters that rear their heads after the shining euphoria of Saturday night fades away. This October season, the Sunday Scaries wreak havoc on Harvard campus. It all begins around 2 p.m. on Sunday […]
Harvard students are often characterized by their potential to change the world. World leaders, innovators, business leaders, and countless other prominent figures have all graduated from Harvard, paving the way for future generations of notable individuals to come. There are numerous examples throughout history of Harvard students who have famously conceived world-changing companies from their […]
Harvard College encourages all students to take a gap year. From traveling across the country to working pre-professionally, COVID-19 drove students to take time off and explore through different environments. A year beyond academic restrictions gives gap year students more maturity and clarity towards how to maximize their undergraduate experience. Chris Kim ’26 explained his […]
A Harvard diploma is the golden ticket to career success—at least that’s what many people on campus believe. But dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg have paved a new path, as more and more students are pausing their college careers to pursue innovative ideas and create companies that just can’t wait till after graduation. One example is […]
Considering the amount of work required for students to enter the Harvard bubble, those who step away from the College before graduation are often regarded with a sort of mystified confusion. However, the stories of success remind us that sometimes stepping away from one world is the only way to excel in another. Examining surprising […]
Since mid-June, record-shattering monsoons have ravaged Pakistan. As the death toll of the environmental and humanitarian crisis creeps toward 2,000, the Harvard College Pakistani Student Association (HCPSA) has turned to Harvard faculty and students for financial support. While the donations undoubtedly support a noble goal, some Harvard students have voiced concern over the HCPSA’s lack […]
Last week, the JFK Jr. Forum hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a moderated discussion with former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Belfer Center Director Ash Carter. Speaking virtually from a bunker in Kyiv, Zelenskyy called upon The Ukrainian President has emerged as a hero, leading his country with resilience through Russia’s harrowing invasion of […]
After a summer-long conversation with the Harvard Undergraduate Association regarding equity efforts in Harvard’s student administration, Primus, Harvard’s First Generation Low Income student association, posted on Instagram on Sep. 19 stating that the HUA had “rejected PRIMUS’s plans for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Primus members were responding to the HUA’s vote against their proposal for […]
After exposing inaccurate reports from his own school, Columbia mathematics professor Michael Thaddeus ignited the fall of Columbia’s rankings in the annual US News and World Report. Earlier this month, Columbia’s ranking on the annual list fell from #2 to #18 after Thaddeus’ divulgement of the university’s inaccurate reports of financial data, terminal degrees, graduation […]
While most students at Harvard live out their years beyond the Yard in the House they were assigned to first-year spring, there are a select few that opt to switch Houses. With a notoriously low acceptance rate, the inter-house transfer process is easy to apply to, but infamously hard to find success in. For how […]