Looking Back, Leading Forward
“Where do you think you’ll go to school next?” my youngest sister asked me as we pulled out of our driveway. As the oldest of three, I was the first to leave home and begin college. As I turned out of the neighborhood I loved, my pulse accelerated just thinking of how different everything was […]
Funding Cuts Leave Harvard University Endowment in Jeopardy
As of May 15, the Trump administration has frozen about $2.7 billion in federal grants from Harvard University. While the University’s robust endowment should help cushion further cuts, the challenges of digging into such funds leave the institution on unstable fiscal footing. At $53.2 billion, Harvard has the largest endowment across global higher education institutions. […]
Reckoning and Renewal: Harvard’s Spring 2025 in Review
Over the past few months, Harvard University has faced significant social, political, and legal turmoil, largely due to targeted challenges from the Trump administration against the school and its policies. The 2025 spring semester brought student movements and potent lawsuits against the federal government—all of which left the campus at the center of national attention. […]
The Promise of an American Education
Mexico—my homeland—is one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists outside of active war zones. There, speaking up against those in power means gambling your life. Fear of the State is woven into the fabric of daily life. That is the country I come from. Nonetheless, it is a country I love, the […]
What Winthrop Means
A fantastically large bird, nameless and blue, pops out of the bushes and flies across the water. Luckily, I live in Winthrop House, so I could walk right out of my own courtyard to this perfect bench by the river moments before, barefoot if I wished. Winthrop is clearly protagonist-coded, a prominent House in the […]
Bon Voyage, Class of 2025!
One of the saddest parts of studying abroad during junior spring is saying goodbye to all the graduating seniors in December instead of May. I found it hard to properly bid adieu to all the wonderful people who shaped my first three years at Harvard—especially those at the Indy. So, to make up for it, […]
This Shared Life
With my junior year behind me, the end of college suddenly feels right around the corner. It seems like just yesterday I was grabbing meals with strangers in Annenberg, writing Expos 20 essays, and making my frequent treks to and from Pennypacker 27. I always knew my time at Harvard would fly by—everyone told me […]
A Letter To Our Senior Selves
Dear Senior Paige and Tilly, Although some days seemed to drag on forever, it feels just like yesterday that we were banging on the door of our freshman dorms, not realizing we had to pick up our keys from Yard Ops. All of a sudden, we were returning those same keys, rooms empty once more. […]
Farewell, Fare Well
My dearly departed, When I think of words, I think of their parts. This is a goodbye letter, so it should be just that. A good bye. A cheerful ciao. A splendid so long. But this goodbye is far from just good—in fact, it is causing me quite a bit of emotional turmoil. And the […]
Thoughts from New Quincy: Into the Unknown
The road curves out ahead of us, the trees pulling long shadows across the asphalt. I’m driving—my dad in the passenger seat, one arm out the window, tapping his fingers on the door in rhythm with the song on the radio. The Stones are playing low, something from “Sticky Fingers” I only ever seem to […]
Abreast on Abroad: My Final Love Letter
Bonjour Friends, Actually, hello. While I arrived at Charles de Gaulle as a girl in an “I Heart NY” tee, I leave as a woman in a beret. To my dismay, my return to the United States of America has arrived. Shameless plug for the Harvard Office of International Education (your girl is *officially* an […]
Memorial Hall
Memory filters the moment like light through stained glass— shapes and colors the stretch of the soul, limits the unlimited sun, refracts mere truth into beauty, converts veritas into waffles— yet only here, in this thickened light, can we slow perfection enough to feel it warm the walls as this hall remembers with us. Aidan […]
Sports Spotlight: Radcliffe Lightweight Rowing
As most students pack up for summer break, many Harvard athletes remain on campus, training for the final stretch of their season. The Radcliffe Lightweights, Harvard’s women’s lightweight rowing team, are preparing for the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship Regatta on May 31 to June 1 at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, NJ. Rowing is […]
Spring Sports Round-Up
While sports fans regard fall as the coveted football season, as the NFL and NCAA run parallel, spring is the time for some of America’s most popular sports: baseball, softball, and lacrosse. This year, Harvard has seen success in many of its teams, from the most recognized to the least mainstream sports. With some teams […]
Harvard, Trump, and SEVP Certification: The University Responds
In the 24 hours since the Trump administration announced that Harvard would no longer be able to host international enrollees for the 2025-2026 academic year, University affiliates have stood their ground. “We condemn this unlawful and unwarranted action,” University President Alan Garber ’76 wrote in a University-wide message on the morning of May 23. “It […]