Student Life
Venn Diagram: Midterms and Midriffs
Midterms and midriffs: Wish you could switch bodies to score well.
Harvard Sex Week: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
At the beginning of this academic year, every Harvard freshman received a flyer under his door inviting him to participate in the planning of this year’s “Sex Week.”
The Crimson Weatherboard's Weekly Weather Review
I’d stay home and babysit my sister while mother would go off and sweat on sad middle-aged men who weren’t my father. The sweat would bead like rain drops on a car window.
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Harvard Students for Education Reform (SFER), a new program that started this fall, presents A Workshop with Fred Jones, author of Tools for Teaching and a leader in education teaching strategies. Jones addresses key strategies that teachers can use to help children learn on Tuesday at Sever Hall.
Outings and Innings Offers Cheaper Movie Tickets
Still miffed about the closing of the AMC Loews Harvard Square 5 back in July? Harvard's Outings & Innings office can help ease the pain of that five-mile trek to the AMC Boston Common 19 with their reduced-price movie tickets.
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Harvard Students for Education Reform (SFER), a new program that started this fall, presents A Workshop with Fred Jones, author of Tools for Teaching and a leader in education teaching strategies. Jones demonstrates successful teaching methods by having audience members fold paper airplanes on Tuesday at Sever Hall.
Senior Committee Finalized
The Harvard Alumni Association announced the remaining members of the Senior Class Committee, a microcosm of the Class of 2013 that includes best friends, students who had never met before, and six HoCo co-chairs.
At Harvard, It's Getting Better
When Brandy A. L. Machado ’14 began her freshman year, she told herself she would never come out of the closet. It took Machado an entire semester to decide that she would finally share her secret.
Students Discuss Mental Health Through Spoken Word, Dance, Conversation
In an effort to break the silence on an often-stigmatized topic, members of the Harvard community gathered to share experiences with mental illness through spoken word, interpretive dance, and candid conversations at Friday night’s second-annual “Words on the Mind” open mic night.
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Tommie Shelby (African and African American Studies and Philosophy) reminisces on embarrassing, yet lonely, moments as a freshman who was a first generation college student. The FDO and faculty members created this panel to discuss new methods of helping first generation freshmen settle into college.
Faculty Discuss Experiences as First-Generation Students
Four faculty members who themselves were first-generation college students gathered in Boylston Hall Thursday to offer advice to current Harvard students.
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Alexandra Shields (Harvard Medical School), Tommie Shelby (African and African American Studies and Philosophy), and Matthew Nock (Psychology) reminisce on embarrassing, yet lonely, moments as first generation college students when they were freshmen. The FDO and faculty members created this panel to discuss new methods of helping first generation freshmen settle into college.
A Strongly Worded Open Letter to the Undergraduate Council
Dear Undergraduate Council,
