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Contemporary Romance: Standoffish
It didn’t take me long after that to realize something had changed. Platonic touch had been something out of my grasp before, something that I welcomed at the moment it happened; now, it was something that I actively avoided.
Contemporary Romance: Scattered, Smothered, and Covered
I wish I could pinpoint what exactly it is that keeps me coming back. Perhaps it’s the knowledge that Waffle House will welcome six bleary-eyed high school seniors who can’t help but order the entire menu on a Saturday night, just as it will welcome families the next day in their Sunday best and truckers who’ve driven across countless state lines the night after that.
Contemporary Romance: My Sister by the Sea
No matter the age, or how many times she choked on the sea, she was always babbling, giggling, and shrieking; despite purple, chattering lips, she never admitted to being cold.
Give a Girl a Sword and She’ll Ask for a Battalion
When Twombly first looked up “sword fighting” on a whim and joined the Boston Armizare, she was the only woman in the club. She was determined to bring her hobby to a wider audience, however, and set out to show other women that they, too, can enjoy martial arts.
Harvard’s Hidden Staff Artists
During their free time, many Harvard staff members enjoying creating art and music. For the first time ever, there is an event where staff members can present their art at the Smith Campus Center Staff Arts Show.
Chicken Feet
It was like this culinary cold war, a pissing contest for who’d eaten the weirdest animal appendage. I was hurt, not just because I had lost the war (my mom was never able to find frozen sheep penis at the grocery store, not even at Whole Foods), but because we were fighting it in the first place. What were we trying to prove? And to whom? Why?
Suraj Yengde and the Struggle for Dalit Liberation
"You don’t even dream of this shit,” he says. “You dream what is in your limits.” Suraj Yengde has spent his entire life doing the unimaginable: attending college in India, studying in England, pursuing a Ph.D. in South Africa, and, in 2016, coming to Harvard.
'Just' Visiting?
Given the range of differences in experiences and viewpoints between students in the College and in the VUS program, the University should take whatever steps it can to integrate the two groups, including through shared orientation or activities.
Harvard Should Tread Cautiously With Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh’s alleged misconduct may be a national story, but it is one eerily reminiscent of our own campus culture.
The Wi-Fi is Bad and I Blame HMC
Harvard is right to seek out benefactors. It has a responsibility to see that their generosity is well stewarded.
The Perils of Technocracy at the Kennedy School
We enter the Kennedy School asking what we can do to create positive change. We expect our education here to help. A piece of advice from a soon-to-be graduate: It won’t.
Cambridge Police Can’t Police Themselves
The playbook for Cambridge’s response to Friday’s events will be predictable because Cambridge police have used excessive force on people of color before.
Kiss Me, I’m Very Not Irish and Cold and Confused
It’s stupid cold out today, this March morning with the sky frozen cloudless glacier-blue. The bitter wind and whining bagpipes of the Saint Patrick’s Day parade turns my face numb. I’m desperately clutching two slices of pizza, jostled to and fro among the low-slung buildings of South Boston.
An aliebn Among Us
This week, FM chats with Jonathan F. Sun, an MIT graduate student, illustrator, and author best known for his Twitter persona "jomny sun" (jonnysun).
15 Very Earnest Minutes with the Crimson Consulting Club
"It’s students like you who have changed my entire perspective on the world, but aside from that, motivated me on a daily basis, making me reflect on my entire life."
Cherry Pits
The window curtains flutter—apricot-colored like the scent on the breeze—and a few leaves fly in. We’re six floors up; there’s no elevator. My great-grandmother hasn’t left this room in seven years.
Operation Match
In 1965, two Harvard students created the very first computer-based matchmaking service in the United States. They called it Operation Match.
Listen, I Don’t Think It Was Unreasonable For Me To Wear My Latex Bodysuit to Adult Night at Legoland
I assumed we were all here for the same reason—to capital-D Discover the power of sensual touch against the backdrop of thousands of tiny plastic bricks.
Hebrew Bible's Fall from Grace
And the LORD said, I will destroy the General Education I have created and the covetous section kids who seek to raise their sad GPAs from the dust of the earth.
Talking Punk Rock at Schlesinger Library
Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, isn’t your everyday comic-book hero. And “Altered Gazes,” the Schlesinger Library exhibition in which this 1991 comic is featured, is not your everyday collection.
Give a Shit
Pooping is a part of life everywhere, but I get the sense that here, it’s a lifestyle.
Teen Mag Quiz: Are You Really Playing Devil's Advocate?
Are you the worst....or are you the literal devil?
7,000 Under 30
“Do you have a LinkedIn?” one concert-goer yells at a girl. She nods. Both whip out their smartphones and add each other.
‘Education Not Deportation’: Professors Under Arrest
“There weren’t a lot of question marks,” a professor says. “People knew what to expect.”