A senior assesses life at—and after—college without the pre-med track.
If courses aren’t as exciting as extracurriculars, what’s a college for?
Harvard Magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows
As senior year winds down, a look forward—and back.
Junior Parents’ Weekend brings The Undergraduate a new perspective on the future.
Of archives, libraries, personal memories, and Sylvia Plath
Undergraduate columnist Christian Flow ponders the strange social science of mingling.
Quiz Bowl’s quirky intellectualism and hard-driving competitiveness energize a strong Harvard team.
The Undergraduate reflects on how good and bad dreams shape the way we grow up.
I realized that college was over when I opened up the large diploma case to show my family the product of four years’ labor and found…
The Harvard I know today began in the most unlikely of ways: with a cup of tea, served loose-leaf in a ceramic mug, as I sat at a table littered with books and papers, impossibly squeezed between the bookshelves and free-standing chalkboard of a narrow Semitic Museum office.
I remember many things from my cousin’s wedding—my poofy bridesmaid’s dress, the humidity, how pretty the small church looked…
Many Harvard undergraduates give personal happiness and reflective decision-making short shrift in the race for academic accolades and…
Of all the difficult decisions one confronts as an undergraduate, the selection of concentration is perhaps the hardest. Fortunately, it is also…
Though I have two years left before I bid farewell to Harvard, I stayed through Commencement this past June to write for the Crimson and…
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