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What We Wish We Were Doing
To the students who simply don’t know what they want: Harvard has more resources available to helping you find what you love than potentially any other educational institution in the world. There are plenty of classes, student organizations, job opportunities, and Harvard-funded events that can help. There are alumni who have found success (and more importantly, happiness) in careers that may seem unconventional or strange to the current student or newly minted graduate. An open mind goes a long way in self-discovery.
Knowledge Is Power: Using KIPP Study to America’s Advantage
Their aim is to prepare their students to overcome societal disadvantage to reach and succeed in college. And it seems to be working: KIPP students consistently score better on standardized tests than students from surrounding schools, and over 80 percent of students who completed 8th grade at KIPP have later gone on to college.
We Relay for Cancer’s Silver Linings
I Relay because I want more people to have that glimmer of hope, those little victories, and that silver lining from finishing treatment.
A Space for Individuality
The new gay-friendly mosque creates a space for men and women to pray together as equals.
Quad Erat Demonstrandum
Forgive me, Cabot—it wasn’t you, it was me—but getting a House I desperately did not want turned out to be strangely liberating
The Illusion of Progress
No matter where the next pope comes from, the Church will still be complicit in the death and mistreatment of hundreds of thousands of AIDS victims and homosexuals throughout Africa.
A Letter to the Class of 2016
The memories of Housing Day morning can only be contained in blasts of experience. You’ll wake to discordant chants around the John Harvard statue. You’ll watch triumphant Houses taking laps around the Yard.
Don’t Drone Me, Bro
The United States has been carrying out a program that devastates innocent lives and harms American interests without admitting to it, choosing instead to actively lie about it for some time.
Changing the Paradigm
A new generation of Jews needs a new paradigm for supporting Israel: their advocacy is not only about defending Israel on campus, but also about challenging the status quo and working to make Israel a better, more perfect country.
A Fleeting Moment in History
By continuing on this same trajectory, then, Pope Benedict XVI’s succession and the upcoming election offer little in terms of historical merit, especially considering the general tendency of modern-day Catholics to disregard papal doctrine.
The Wrong Type of Engagement
The PSC’s use of the word “apartheid” is ahistorical, polarizing, and preventative of informed, fact-based dialogue. The implication of the comparison to “apartheid” is that the Israelis are racist totalitarians ruling over blameless Palestinians, with no consideration for the nuances and details of the conflict.
Does Harvard Place Enough Value on Academics?
Reality check: It is impossible for anyone to dictate exactly how anyone else should spend his time.
Women Are Not a Punch Line
The issue with these claims is that nothing is objectively funny; certain things can really only be funny to people who have certain kinds of privilege.
Letters to the Editor
This editorial is not an outlier, but only the most brazen recent example of the preference for mindless bullying over authentic discussion.
A Healthier Harvard
We hope that the current campus energy around mental health can stimulate further discussion and improvements.
Bring Back Banter
Here and now at Harvard, we have the opportunity to engage with our friends in unstructured ways; yet this is usually the last thing we're thinking about.
The Worm’s Perspective
There is nobody at the C.I.A. who could tell you more personally about Kim Jong Un than Dennis Rodman, and that in itself is scary.
The Modern Symphony
Indeed, it only supports a wider truth I have come to know over the last few months: Electronic dance music is the new classical.