Have you ever gotten nearly 13,000 likes on a tweet? No? Me neither. Believe it or not, some of Harvard’s most beloved professors have. Indeed, Economics Professor Jason Furman’s most popular tweet has received 13.2k likes and 2.4k retweets—even more likes than Justin Timberlake earns. “I try to generally stick to things where I bring […]
TikTok, an app for creating and sharing short videos, has blown up over the past few years. Currently, it has over 1 billion users worldwide and has been downloaded more than 200 million times in the United States. The Independent spoke with four Harvard TikTokers who have amassed large followings on the platform: Brad Wolf […]
15% of Harvard undergraduates have been diagnosed with a mental health issue, according to a 2018 HUHS survey cited in the July 2020 Report of the Task Force on Managing Student Mental Health. 11% were in treatment, and 46% (including over half of all women) had “concerns” about potential undiagnosed issues that they may have […]
As you walk through Harvard Yard, head down and exhausted from the mental exertion of a two-hour lecture, you’re suddenly startled by a student zipping past, just barely missing you. Taking a glance up, you find a stream of two-wheeled motor vehicles zooming by. Why are scooters suddenly everywhere around campus? Students depend on their […]
The Undergraduate Council has long waded into difficult territory in its aim to advocate for the students, but one of its recent moves around freedom of speech has attracted some controversy. On October 4th, the UC unanimously passed a resolution to review Harvard’s Free Speech Guidelines, a set of principles adopted in 1990 that outlines […]
Imagine you’re strolling down JFK Street and you hear a strange sound. You turn to your right, peeking into the window of the Hicks House, an unassuming little abode on the corner of JFK and South Street. What you see inside astonishes you. In one room, a small group of undergraduates sit in a circle, […]
Near the front of Harvard Yard lies a small, fenced-off pit, with a dirt pile that seems to grow every day. Most students walk by, give it a glance, and continue along, but for some, the nearby sign captures their attention enough to warrant a closer look. After all, it is not every day that […]
Mather House was built to suppress. The blockish and brutish tower still maintains the strict and secure attitude of its 1970 anti-protest design. But from under the mass of concrete has sprung a stem of blatant, star-spangled expression in the form of a Nicki Minaj flag. Red, white, blue, and Barbz (her fanbase’s self-dubbed moniker), […]
A record-breaking 20% of Harvard College’s Class of 2024 chose to defer their first year— three times higher than the usual amount, according to an August 2020 Forbes article. The class of 2025 became the largest class in Harvard’s history and perhaps also the most diverse in experiences. How are these first-years adjusting to campus […]