Articles by Department: The Undergraduate

In small white rooms lit by fluorescent lamps and littered with empty soda bottles or coffee cups, undergraduates often find themselves heading…

During the year and a half I have spent as a student at Harvard, I’ve been befuddled by tRNA in a Life Sciences 1a lecture, experienced…

Almost every week last year I received an e-mail with the subject line “Iraq Update.” With each message, the number following that…

 Stumbling along Mount Auburn Street on my way to my Social Studies 10 lecture, I barely manage to juggle Wealth of Nations, this…

Before telegrams became scarce, the Japanese artist On Kawara would send them with the message I AM STILL ALIVE. Normally he would sign them…

As the summer months trickle through my sweaty fingers, September looms, bringing with it the first of my Lasts. For the last time, I will…

 Recently, my mom was putting books onto a new bookshelf when a red one fell to the floor. “What is this?” she asked, in a…

“Is there no one in this House who plays basketball?” the e-mail reads. I feel a twinge of guilt. I signed up to play intramural…

Drawings by Lewis Albert The spotlights are on and the music is pounding. I am sitting close to the edge of a stage in the darkened Bright…

Knock on the door. Wait. Insert key, turn. Open slightly. “Dorm Crew." No one is home. This is a relief, as always. I locate the…

I wore the wrong shoes to my first day of work this summer. I don’t know what inspired me to choose the pointy black pair with elastic…

038029-051166-732177 On a rainy summer’s night in New York City, a month after graduation, a group of my college friends meet for dinner…

More students are venturing abroad, for term or summer study or other experiences, with the College’s encouragement. The first of two…

The senior-year job hunt began as many do: with the purchasing of a suit at the end of the summer. Mine was a black, pinstripe ensemble that my…

It’s hard to escape San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past…