Artmaking in Antarctica
I invite you to traverse the ancient desert; that southern wintry world, wherein I cut my teeth on the icescape, scrambling up rocky moraine, journal and camera in hand. I sat in the shadow of a glacier; partitioned the ether in my mind’s eye, drank up the liquid landscape, inhaled the burning cold; carved myself […]
April Showers, May Flowers
Drip. Drip. Drip. After a downpour, remnants of the rain dribble from the trees to the ground, and the earthy smell of petrichor fills the humid air. At last, the rain has paused for a brief moment. The dark skies slowly lighten, rays of sunshine seeping through the breaks in the clouds as glimmers of […]
New Words and New Worlds
Willkommen! Bienvenue! مَرْحَباً ! ยินดีต้อนรับ! Ivy Day has recently passed, and many excited high school seniors have just received their Harvard acceptances. Now comes their next hurdle: graduating. An essential component of Harvard College’s liberal arts curriculum is the foreign language requirement. While it can be quickly fulfilled by scoring a 5 on any Advanced […]
To Sleep, Waiting, and Memory
I still can’t bear to wipe away the tears and constellations you painted across my face All I see in the mirror is the unfinished painting you made of me: Untitled Sleep The best sleep is the kind you sneak away with My illicit affair She creeps up from behind and surprises me I’m stolen, […]
Interrupted Relief: Politics, Reform, and the Uncertain Future of USAID
As part of a series with Harvard’s Center for International Development on global economic growth, the Institute of Politics’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum led a conversation on March 25 exploring the repercussions of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development. The event featured three panelists discussing the future of U.S. foreign aid after the […]
Indy Sportsbook: Form, Injuries, and Tactical Shifts from Bournemouth to Boston
Get ready for a weekend of exciting sports action, with picks that will keep you on the edge of your seat. From the Premier League to the NBA, we have a combination of predictions to help you make the most of your weekend and decompress after grueling midterms. Whether you are rooting for Bournemouth’s counter-attacking […]
Canines, Community, and Connection
Among the many Phillips Brooks House Association programs, Pets as Therapy stands out as one of the few Harvard initiatives to unite animals and students to support those in need. Through carefully organized visits, undergraduate volunteers and trained therapy dogs head to the Cambridge Rehabilitation and Nursing Center to offer canine companionship and its associated […]
Harvard Men’s Soccer Takes Italy and Germany
This year, while many spring breakers traveled to Puerto Rico, Miami, and the Dominican Republic, the Harvard men’s soccer team took a 10-day trans-Atlantic excursion to Italy and Germany. The trip took place from March 14 to 23 and included stops at Milan, Como, Düsseldorf, and Dortmund, as well as three matches against Italian and […]
Ask Harvard: Recommendations For Your Schedule This Fall
Most Harvard undergraduates will take 12-20 courses for their chosen concentration, three classes that fulfill general College writing, language, and quantitative reasoning requirements, four general education courses, and three divisional distributions of arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and engineering across their four years on campus. This does not account for the many students […]
Chaos and Comedy: A Review of Arcadia
The Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s recent production of “Arcadia” masterfully intertwined intellect and emotion, showcasing the dedication and talent of the cast and crew in four shows from March 27 to March 30. The events of the play unfolded in Sidley Park, an English estate, shifting between the early 19th century and the present day […]
From Harvard Yard to Heartbreak Hill
On April 21, Boston will celebrate its annual marathon, an event characterized by tradition, hard work, and enthusiasm for the runners who boldly take on the 26.2-mile course. With hundreds of volunteers offering refreshments to athletes and thousands of spectators lining the race path with encouraging signs, Marathon Monday is a highlight for many city […]
Not All Passports Are Equal
Much has been said about the challenges faced by international students at Harvard, but perhaps the most significant obstacle of all is the visa. The visa, along with the restrictions it carries, can be a significant burden on its holder. However, the difficulty of the process varies greatly depending on the passport you hold. A […]
Daylight Craving Time
If you polled college students, most would claim that their favorite time of year arrives during spring break, the winter holidays, or the last few weeks of school. For me, it’s the day that daylight saving time begins. Daylight saving time begins in early March when the clocks jump forward an hour and ends in […]
Harvard Makes it Rain
Harvard College just made a game-changing announcement: it’s expanding its financial aid. If your family makes $100,000 or less per year, congratulations—you get to attend Harvard for free! If your family makes $200,000 or less, do not worry—you still get a piece of the pie, because your tuition will be fully covered. For a lot […]
Comment if You Care
“So beautiful OMG.” “OBSESSED WITH YOU!” “Sickkk!” Scroll through any college student’s Instagram, and you’ll find comment sections overflowing with enthusiastic displays of praise. But look closer, and you’ll see a microcosm of college social dynamics. From heart emojis to sarcastic one-liners, Instagram comments can reveal not only how users seek validation but also how […]
A Broad, Abroad: Lessons from Stress
Despite my love for Eliot Dining Hall, I spent much of sophomore fall hopping between different Houses’ dining halls—not for camaraderie, but for answers to Stat 110 p-sets. Each week, hours of my life disappeared in crowded office hours, hovering around a teaching fellow in hopes of getting a single question answered about probability, Bayes’s […]
Exposé of EXposé
On Saturday, March 29, the Harvard hip-hop group Expressions Dance Company put on their spring showcase, EXposé, in Lowell Lecture Hall. The show was an hour long and featured seven distinct and powerful performances. Founded in 1978, Expressions Dance Company is a student-operated dance group showcasing hip-hop dance. Their ‘Direx,’ EDC’s current board of directors, […]
Open 25/8
Tucked just off Massachusetts Avenue on Linden Street sits a narrow glass art display that was once a Bank of America ATM. Illuminated and on view to passersby around the clock, the display space is aptly named the “25/8 artspace.” The display space features a rotating exhibition by local artists, with an emphasis on work […]
Limited Color and Liminal Space
When art emerges from the debris of war, it carries memories, lingering with cold uneasiness. On March 29, Nikita Ivaniuta ’28, a first-year student from Ukraine, opened a solo art exhibition at the Signet Society, Harvard’s arts and letters society. Through his work, Ivaniuta reflects on the devastation caused by the ongoing war between Russia […]
Sanders Theatre: On Referentiality
My favorite essay of all time is “Simone Weil” by Susan Sontag, from her watershed 1966 essay collection “Against Interpretation.” Here’s the first line, for a taste: “The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilization are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress by force—not simply by their tone […]
Thoughts from New Quincy: Thursday
I. You left early, like always. Same time you do every day. The buildings hadn’t lit yet. The sky was a pale gray, the kind that can’t commit to any particular kind of weather. You hadn’t checked the forecast before you left this morning, so you didn’t bring gloves. Your headphones were in before you […]