Fashion Impressions: What We Wear to Say Hi
First years are choosing to wear what makes them feel both stylish and snug.
“Fashion is instant language,” Miuccia Prada wrote. Not every member of the Class of 2026 may speak the language of the head designer of Prada, but they know that what they wear is how they immediately present themselves to a new campus. While some first years have aspiring fashion goals, and others are simply looking […]
Too Cool For School
The confusion around who gets AC and who deserves AC continues.
Moving in is painful. Students get everything out of storage, wait for their boxes from HUA, rearrange furniture for maximum space (and try to hide the hole you made in a wall from your bedpost). With different rooming situations and different House layouts, the one constant you will always see is sweat. This year, Cambridge […]
Monkeypox: A New Public Health Challenge for Harvard
Harvard braces itself amid global Monkeypox outbreak.
Just as the Harvard community thought itself free of the clutches of COVID-19, it must now deal with the looming threat of yet another viral disease: Monkeypox. Described as the distant cousin of the much more perilous smallpox, Monkeypox is a rare viral infection that causes flu-like symptoms such as fever and chills, as well […]
ALL THE RUMORS ARE TRUE
Mixed opinions follow a sudden change during Football’s and Volleyball’s respective pre seasons.
“The rumor on the team….” was a phrase student athletes repeated several times when asked about one of Harvard Athletics’ newest decisions: to get rid of the tradition of fitness tests during preseason training. Grace Allen ’24, a junior on the women’s volleyball team, mentioned hearing “rumors in the weeks leading up to the start […]
Wealth or Wisdom: the Purpose of a Harvard Education
Does Harvard’s mission promote a moral or financial focus?
Last year, I wrote an article about how Harvard’s rich abundance of opportunity often went to waste as over 60 percent of its graduates entered the workforce in one of three industries: finance, consulting, and technology. I was frustrated with how the high starting salaries of three industries enthralled so many students to abandon their […]
