For the first two years of my college career, I was single. Though I dated a bit, I found the romantic waters of Harvard Yard extremely cold…
In recent years, the annual fall career forum at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center has been one of the most conspicuous displays of the many…
I can’t explain what I study at Harvard. I am a women’s-studies concentrator. After a two-year stint of floating through five large academic…
In the fall of my freshman year, I arrived in Cambridge with a lot of baggage. The family station wagon was nearly bursting with my hastily…
Early freshman year, in order to experience all that college had to offer, I decided to cut sleep out of my life entirely. Having over-committed…
One of the trying rituals faced by a newly arrived freshman at Harvard is that of endless introduction. It is almost impossible not to feel…
True story: Three and a half years ago, when I was still an anxious, green freshman living in Thayer, my then-boyfriend and I happened to be…
The countdown began on February 28. I was jogging across Tercentenary Theatre (coincidentally, the site of my impending graduation) when I was…
I don’t have many regrets about my undergraduate years at Harvard — but I do wish I’d taken a semester abroad…
Students and staff
I’ve always had difficulty with conclusions. Writing a 101-page senior thesis may have only made my problem worse. I should have heeded the…
I have to ask. I’ve seen it every day for three years now. Take your pick of location: the main doors of Sever and Emerson ….
What surprises me most about senior year is how much it resembles freshman year—especially in the chronic questions that haunt conversations…
There are some ways in which Harvard College, for all its history and prestige, is a normal college with normal students. The undergraduates are…
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