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It’s Only Awkward if you make it Awkward
Which is why every time I knock on a door with my cleaning supplies bucket and mop pole in hand, I pray that nobody answers. I bet that on a list of the most awkward situations in which Harvard students frequently find themselves, being in the room while a Dorm Crew worker cleans one’s bathroom is at the top.
OUT OF LEFT FELD: Changing of the Guard in Ivy League Football
The final notes were the same, but the songs were completely different.
AROUND THE IVIES: Football Faces First True Ivy Test
A new application season starts Saturday. When the Princeton football team gets off the bus at Harvard Stadium, the Ivy League will officially begin taking applications for its next gridiron champion.
Fewer Existential Crises, More Babies
Secular liberals, male and female, I urge you: fewer existential crises, more babies.
Don’t Teach For America
But it has become increasingly clear to anyone who thinks critically about teaching that there’s something off with TFA’s model.
Disjecta Membra
He’s off on another brisk morning jog by the Charles. When he pauses to lie down in the grass, twigs and critters catch in his hair. He has a full set of straight teeth, absenting those ultimate molars. How fine to be young—virile, puerile, here for a while. Everything is exactly right for a second-year Harvard student with a heart full of love, healthy and clear-headed, stretching his legs on a Sunday antemeridian to feed Pringles to the geese. So why the funk? Do you still want to be a pre-med? He don’t like these questions—so he runs. Ah: runs. Riverrun past Leverett and Mather and Updike’s environs.
Men in K-Pop: From “Flower Boys” to “Beast-dols”
The confusing and at times contradictory portrayals of males in K-pop are all part of a greater multi-layered, culturally mixed, and strategically manufactured marketing ploy, but also extremely fitting to the greater social changes witnessed in the nation of South Korea.
Citizen Keynes
The life-as-morality-play narrative remains the dividing line between conservative and liberal economists, but has more concrete impact than an inconsequential academic debate.
What Color Is Your Column?
Sitting around worrying about what to study won’t get me anywhere—studying something will.
Monkeys and Darts
The market may behave like a dart-throwing monkey, but this year’s Nobel laureates helped us understand the beast much better.
