Parting Shot
Forever Young, I Wanna Be
After a year feeling like an old, crotchety grandma, I am ready to spend the rest of my life as a freshman.
A House as a Home
I never shared in enough Kirkland experiences to become a genuine part of that community, but I did find my own affiliation elsewhere.
Swimming in a Larger School
In the next four years, apart from what you learn in your classes, you’ll realize that you don’t have to be the “best” at everything to feel fulfillment.
Ticket to Ride
What began in the fall of 2007 and ends now was, for me, an avowed departure from the pitfalls of British university culture and embrace of the liberal arts system espoused by Harvard.
Into the Wild Blue Yonder
The days and nights of Senior Week are blending together, a combination of induced haziness and simply a ton of things going on.
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.
