Parul Agarwal

We all have different ways of motivating ourselves to study. For some, it's the promise of sleep. For others, it's being able to catch up on the latest episodes of "Gossip Girl" guilt-free. And, thanks to CityStep, we now have another option. 

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In an effort to help students fill the bare walls of their rooms, the Harvard College Art Society held a dorm-decorating workshop in Adams Art Studio. Check out this video to see what they worked on.

Vi Hart, recreational mathemusician perhaps best known for her videos about doodling in math class, is in residence in Pforzheimer House this week. Last night, she held a workshop where Pforzheimer and College affiliates—including this Flyby correspondent—learned to make polyhedrons and other mathematical objects using balloons.

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.

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.

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.

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Shhh… can you hear it? It's Harvard's latest student organization, the Listening Club.

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As the illustrious career of Jeffrey A. Zucker '86, CEO of NBC Universal, nears an end, it appears that one "healthy rivalry" will still remain.

Reminiscing about his life at Harvard as President of The Harvard Crimson, Zucker spoke of his days teasing fellow student Conan C. O’Brien '85, a past President of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine.

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Though Harvard students may often seem to sing praises for the student groups to which they belong, few ever rap about them—but that’s exactly what Maxbetter S. Vizelberg '14 did in this new video.

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