Parting Shot
Parallel Harvards
On bad days, my room, though perversely sized and thinly walled, offered refuge from the scrutiny of the clan.
Freedom to Float
Floating hurts, but I believe being plopped into murky water could benefit more than a few Harvard undergrads.
And Sow The Seeds of Tyranny
Like all parting shots, the message can be neatly summed up with a one-sentence lesson I learned in third grade: Agree to disagree.
On the History and Literature of America
America was born in war, or through it, and I think it is continually defined by war: from a colony to a united states, from a house divided to a union, from a country to a world power.
A Few Good Men of Harvard
In short, you see people who are so busy trying to save the world that they forget to take care of it.
The Beauty of Nothing
Doing nothing has been one of my greatest pastimes over the past four years, and I unequivocally endorse its practice to those students who have yet to embrace it.
The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Lamont
The library and the community it sustains emerge in response to the central anxiety of Harvard life: the failure to measure up. Under Lamont’s 24-hour fluorescent lighting, no one need bear this ponderous burden alone.
Greetings from the Ad Board
In focusing on “low-hanging fruit” like The Crimson’s innocuous semesterly celebration, Deans David R. Friedrich and Suzy M. Nelson of the Office of Student Life squander time and money regulating celebratory, fun events highly unlikely to create any liability for the College.
The More Things Change
It may often have left me feeling like nothing beyond a more invasive tourist, but studying elsewhere taught me to take that tourist’s eye to my own surroundings in a way that no stack of books on deconstructing social norms can compel.
Feet Pointed Upward
Maybe the value of having conversations is obvious even to freshmen, but it can’t be fully appreciated until the end of senior year, when one has grown as much as one can in this place.
First-World Problems: Navigating our Struggles
First-world problems are laughable; as such, they should make you laugh, recognize the absurdity of the situation, and move on with being happy. Because here, we have no reason not to be.
The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire
Harvard, loosen up, so that your students can do the same. Get rid of GPA incentives, the Core or Gen Ed, and make it easier for students to use their imaginations for things besides financial models.
Herr Widener
On the days when the work upon my back has weighed like the world upon Atlas, the façade of Widener Library, looming closer with each step, has often seemed to be opening its palatial, ravenous jaws to swallow me whole for untold hours.