Seniors
Tornado-Swept
As storm clouds roll across the sky, I gesture wildly at the front of my classroom, mimicking the smooth rise and fall of a Gaussian curve with my flailing arms.
Twitter is My Graduate School
For the past nine months, I’ve been sleeping on an IKEA mattress folded in half.
Welcome to the Big Kid Party
It’s Saturday night. Lady Gaga croons over a pounding dance beat. The heat emanating from the mass of gyrating bodies in the center of the room is near stifling, unabated by half-open windows at its perimeter.
Taking on Loneliness, One Pancake at a Time
The batter was sizzling, and I had no idea where to find a spatula. I didn’t want her to think that my quickly burning appetizers, Korean pancakes filled with spicy pickled cabbage, were teetering on the edge of disaster.
Moving On Into the Real World
The stories of five recent Harvard graduates who exited the gates of Harvard Yard to go on to pursue a diverse range of occupations and opportunities.
Lisa M. Yu ’11 & Daniel C. Suo ’10
It took all her willpower to refrain from opening the love letter before she was allowed to.
Charles E. Shannon ’11 & A. Faith Kniffley
Charles E. Shannon ’11 and A. Faith Kniffley are well versed in the laws of chemistry—and physics and biology and calculus.
Elizabeth C. Spira ’11 & Theodore A. Hoham
When Elizabeth C. Spira ’11 chose to write her senior thesis on Army wives, the Sociology concentrator already knew her ...
Mike H.N. Teodorescu ’11 & Debbie P. Lin ’11
There was a full moon the night Horia Mihail “Mike” H. N. Teodorescu ’11 proposed to Debbie P. Lin ’11.
Victoria G. Mendoza ’11 & Billy K. Crawford
When the sign-holding mascot appeared on the video board at a Texas Rangers game in the summer of 2007, Victoria ...
Baltazar A. Zavala ’11 & Melanie Johns
Texas natives Baltazar “Zar” A. Zavala ’11 and Melanie Johns first became friends in gym class during their freshman year ...
Stephanie M. Cole '11 and Andrew W. Peace
When they were 12 or 13, Andrew W. Peace pushed Stephanie M. Cole ’11 off a chair at church camp. (He apologized, he claims.)