For The Moment
Breaking Down the $30 Million House
How much does a House at Harvard cost? The Hutchins Family Foundation recently donated $30 million to support the Harvard House Renewal and other academic programs.
Hey Prof: "Just Friends"...What's Up With That?
Platonic no more. According to a recent study published in Scientific American, we’re hot for our friends.
Infinitely Lost: Following David Foster Wallace to Boston’s Back Bay
Standing at the intersection of Boylston St. and Mass. Ave. I realized that I was infinitely lost. Originally, I had...
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Nestled under thick blankets, I can feel the cold air of our apartment on my nose. We like rules, and...
Swim, Alex M. Meyer, Swim!
After competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Alex M. Meyer ’10 has come full circle (made a complete lap?) in his swimming career, returning to Harvard to train with and coach for the men’s swimming and diving team.
A Close Reading For the Social Media Age
FM is here to find (or construct) meaning for the conventions of these destabilizing times.
The Square According to Your Best Friend YELP
With the questionable wisdom of strangers in mind, FM would like to take a moment to highlight a few of Yelp’s rising star(rer)s.
Venn Diagram: Swing States and Swingers
What do Swing States and Swingers have in common? More than you'd think.
5 Questions with Seth I. Stephens-Davidowitz
FM sits down with someone who uses Google searches to predict election results.
Scene & Heard: Books Come to Life
The excitement in the air was palpable: “There’s just nothing like it on this scale,” said Allston resident Bryan Monroe.
The Crimson Weatherboard’s Weekly Weather Review
Dear “Dear Readers” Readers, I have a confession to make.
Jukebox: Election Day
FM firmly believes that every task, even the weighty one of exercising your citizenlyrights by voting in the presidential election, is improved with auditory accompaniment.
A Guide to Asking a Professor to Faculty Dinner
Scared of rejection? Don’t want to spend another faculty dinner spooning stolen dhall cereal into your mouth alone in your dorm room? Don’t worry, FM’s got your back with a few foolproof proposals to guarantee your professor won’t say “no” or “who are you?”
How to Almost Get By
Eventually begin school work sometime after midnight. Convince yourself that you are a night owl: “This is when I get my best work done."
The Anti-Word: Puberty
He repeats it slowly and again fumbles the first syllable, his tongue rising not quite high enough to form the right vowel: “Poo-ber-ty.”
Rhetoric Watch: Bibi's "Red Line"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (known affectionately as “Bibi”) went for a direct hit in a speech at the United Nations last month when he sternly advocated for a “red line” to be drawn on Iran’s nuclear program: a point after which the program would no longer be tolerated.
Scoped!: William S. Murphy '13
In 15 years you are: trying to reclaim the soul I lost to the corporate world. Kidding. Not kidding.
The Anti-Word: Very
Don’t ask me why or how, but until I became acquainted with spell-check at the age of 16, I misspelled “very” every time.
Eight Pop Culture Inspired Costumes
Ah, Halloween, the magical time when every cheap creative costume idea you’ve brainstormed in the last year goes out the window and you end up as some sort of sexy baby animal. Lucky for you, FM’s here to make sure your budget’s no excuse for being the seventh person to show up to the costume party in cat ears, a tail, and not much else.
FM Writes the EU’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Thanks again, Nobel committee. Oh, and if you could be a doll and wire the prize money directly to Spain, that’d be great.