Students roll and coat chocolate truffles on Thursday as part of a Food Literacy Project event that also included a tour of Taza chocolate factory and a movie screening.
Students participating in the Food Literacy Project's chocolate event on Thursday made chocolate mousse and chocolate truffles under the direction of Executive Sous Chef Brian Corcoran.
The Harvard Outing Club led a week-long trip to their cabin in New Hampshire. During the day, students participated in winter activities like hiking, snowshoeing, and sledding.
Participants in the Harvard Outing Club's annual winter trip to their cabin in New Hampshire snowshoe across a frozen lake near Carter Notch.
Theodore Peng '13 prepares to throw a snowball during an informal snowball fight in Quincy courtyard on Friday.
The Harvard Shooting Club hosted an "indoor paintball brawl" on Saturday in Randolph, MA.
On Sunday, thirteen student teams showcased the computer science projects they had worked on as part of the HackHarvard program over J-Term and the Optional Winter Activities Week. The projects will be publicized heavily by the UC.
The Harvard Recreation Team and the Center for Wellness kicked off their "Resolution Solution" with a winter ice skating party in Bright Hockey Center on Monday. The week continued with zumba dancing, dodgeball, meditation, and other recreational activities.
As part of the "New England Aquarium Adventure" on Tuesday, students visit the New England Aquarium before seeing an IMAX movie, shopping in Quincy Market, and visiting Boston Harbor.
Matthew Pierce, Sous Chef for Culinary Operations, shows students how to make mozzarella and ricotta cheese on Tuesday as part of the Food Literacy Project's "Focus on Food" series of cooking classes, tours, and movie screenings.
The Martial Arts Research Institute of Salem, MA, teaches sinawali, or stick fighting, to Harvard students as part of Optional Winter Activities Week.
A group of students explored and studied Harvard's 3,500-acre forest in Petersham, MA, as part of the Winter Break at Harvard Forest. Here, students extract a sediment core from Gould's Bog for later analysis in the lab.
Before classes even started, campus was teeming with students who returned a week early for Optional Winter Activities Week (OWAW). Activites ranged from the academic to the leisurely: the Harvard Shooting Club hosted an "indoor paintball brawl;" a group of students explored and studied Harvard's 3,500-acre forest in Petersham, Mass.; the Food Literacy Project taught cooking lessons; and the Martial Arts Research Institute of Salem, Mass. taught stick fighting. These featured activities represent only a small fraction of the dozens of activites hosted during Harvard's first OWAW.
Photos by Meredith H. Keffer and Jennifer Q. Zhu/The Harvard Crimson and courtesy of Clarisse Hart, Caroline B. Lowe, Michael R. Traver, and Victor Shnayder
