Work of the Week: Featuring Kate Tunnell
Kate Tunnell is in the class of 2024 at Harvard. She is undecided concentration-wise but is leaning towards Sociology with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. In her free time, Kate does yoga, uses oil paints, does pen and charcoal drawings, and cooks. She is affiliated with Oak Yard, but she is currently […]
The Saviour of Rhodes Island
This is what happens when you turn off advertising personalization on YouTube
Rhodes Island is in danger. You must understand this fact, or nothing I am about to say will make any sense at all. Rhodes Island—no, not Rhode Island—is in terrible danger, and only you and your team of “operators” can save it. Some of the operators also work for Penguin Logistics. This may or may […]
On the Outside Looking In
My experience being on a leave of absence during quarantine
On March 10, 2020, I was sitting at home on my couch when I first learned that Harvard wasn’t letting students return to campus after spring break. I heard it from a friend on Snapchat first, their face streaked with tears and voice cracking in a 15-second video that I had to replay to understand […]
The Assumption of the Nuclear Family at Harvard
Acknowledging different definitions of “family”
In the depths of Annenberg dining hall my freshmen year, only inches of wooden table separated me from a newfound friend. But with one word, one piercing assumption, that distance became a mile. “So, where are your parents from?” they asked, wide-eyed and earnest. Parents. The dreaded plural. My heart jumped into my throat; my […]
Beer With A First-Year
What being a first-year on a de-densified campus is like
This is a joke. For legal and social-distancing reasons, of course we didn’t get literal beer with a first-year. But so much of what we’ve lost from the pandemic is the chance for spontaneous conversations, wherein we would catch the pulse on campus life. “Beer with a First-Year” strives to do just that. In a […]