Chemistry
Indy alumna Weike Wang on her forked career path and new novel. By CAROLINE CRONIN Dr. Weike Wang admits that everyone imagines someday writing and publishing a novel. She, however, never expected that she would be doing just that. The Indy alumna and graduate of the class of 2011, has just published a novel earlier this year. Titled Chemistry, it is the unique […]
Skipping Stones
By ABIGAIL KOERNER Alone on a dock in the middle of the night, an old man said to his young grandson, “Listen.” The boy turned his ears towards a smiling face which didn’t often smile. The old man held his body up with strain in every muscle. Sitting with legs dangling over the edge […]
Weltanschauung
The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee offers new perspective, refusing to spell out Perfection. By MARISSA GARCIA Though the occasion is a competition of words, there first must be a celebration of numbers: 1 Night. 9 Freshman. 4 Reads. In preparation for what would come to be a one-night-only performance put on by nine […]
EngiQueering: THES-IS THE END!
By HUNTER RICHARDS It’s all fun and games until you’re covered in clay dust, crusting up, walking 2 miles home from the ceramic studio after 3 hours working on your thesis. “I’m crusty,” I repeat into my phone, slick with sweat from the heat of laying large slabs of clay and running into […]
Big Dreams and Little Kids
Tell Me More’s latest! By KELSEY O’CONNOR AND MARISSA GARCIA This season on Tell Me More, we are asking undergrads about their childhood dreams: When you were five years old, what did you want to be when you grew up? This week, the third episode of Season Two is out, and we know your ears are itching for […]
The Sex Ed Class I Always Wanted
Sex Week at Harvard. By ALAYA AYALA What comes to mind when you think of Sex Ed? Does a Mean Girls quote ring in your ears? Do you picture some teacher rolling a condom onto an innocent banana? Regardless of what you’re imagining, I’d bet that your Sex Ed class sang the benefits of abstinence, and most certainly […]
Constellation Declarations: the Signs as Concentrations
Just in case you’re still not sure what to declare… By HUNTER RICHARDS Aries: VES. The trash piling up in the corner of your room? Art. Sleeping through morning lecture for a Gen Ed? Art. Dropping out? Art. Taurus: Special concentration that’s a mix of philosophy with a dash of linguistics and just […]