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Arianne R. Cohen

Arianne R. Cohen ’03

2001-2002

Undergraduate Columns

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…
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…
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…
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Arianne is a writer and speaker whose work appears regularly in publications such as Elle, The Guardian and The New York Times. She is 6’2”, which inspired her to write The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life From On High (Bloomsbury 2009), which resulted in fun including a TED talk, a Vogue photo spread and an entire episode of Martha Stewart. She also runs The Sex Diaries Project, collecting 7-day anonymous relationship diaries from around the world, and partnering with TV and book companies to share them, including recent collections in Britain, Italy and the U.S. At Harvard, she took 35 courses in 29 departments, which led to a situation known as Unlikely To Graduate Due To Lack of Concentration. She worked it out, and graduated magna cum laude. She greatly enjoyed her time at Harvard Magazine, and hopes that her editors there enjoyed it too.

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