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Big Butts Need Hip Abductors
At Hemenway, MAC, and the QRAC, I couldn’t find a single hip abductor machine. This raises the vital question: does Harvard hate big butts?
Where Do Ivy Grads Stand in India’s Marriage Market?
For India’s marriage market, the Ivy League name is social currency. It can act as a shorthand for a person’s ambition, worldview, social circle, and the kind of future they are likely to build.
Looking at the World Through a Different Lens
This notoriously rigorous two-semester, 16-credit course sends Harvard students across the globe, with a camera and the mission to capture life as it’s experienced — filming through the immersive lens of sensory ethnography.
How Undergraduate Course Assistants Weigh Joining the Picket Line
Undergraduate course assistants do the same work as graduate teaching fellows. Why are they less involved in the union?
An Ode To The Culture: Harvard’s ASL Program
I am two months into Harvard’s ASL 1 course, and I’ve finally racked up enough signs and confidence to clumsily string together a few complete sentences at our morning ASL coffee chat.
In Pursuit of Kit Ketlle
For the last two weeks, Kit Ketlle has been the name on the lips of nearly every Harvard student. The mysterious emailer has set students up with each other — and eventually, themselves. But no one seems to know who Kit Ketlle is, or why they are doing it. I set out to discover Kit Ketlle’s identity — and what their emails say about Harvard dating.
Will AI Make Peer Notetakers Obsolete?
Even with the rise of artificial intelligence platforms that can instantly turn slideshows or recordings into a set of notes, Harvard students find that the DAO’s program offers an essential, human component that AI still cannot replicate. At least for now.
AI Wrote A Harvard Physicist’s Most Recent Paper. No One Knows What It Means for Science.
As LLM calculation skills advance, theoretical fields of science are reckoning with the possibility that they could be replaced. And maybe they want to be?
How the Tug-of-War Between Industry and Academia is Shaping AI Research
Experts in AI and technology want to maximize the impact of their work. To do so, they must weigh the merits of two paths: pursuing research in academia, or moving to industry.
Prepping for the AI ‘Singularity’
AI safety-focused clubs share papers and host high school bootcamps, preparing to face ‘catastrophic’ dangers.
Inside Harvard’s Student-Built Sexual Violence Archive
After collecting and processing records of gendered oppression, violence, and resistance to create Take Back Harvard, for Jessica Wang and Stella Lei, no place on the University’s campus is left without a connection to a moment long past, and, to most, long forgotten.
Rethinking a Humanities Education: The Brook Farm Institute
The Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies, which launches its first seminars next month, is a non-profit institute offering online and in-person courses on the humanities and social sciences.
There Are Only Winners At Fight Night
With 20 seconds left in the final fight, hollering spectators drown out the sound of red gloves striking against skin. It’s Fight Night with Harvard’s Boxing Club.
Around the World in Eight Days
Harvard Alumni Travels: the Harvard Alumni Association’s travel agency you’ve probably never heard of.
Finding Home in Dudley House
Over dinner — chickpeas, sweet potato fries, hummus, and green goddess salad — students come in and out of the building. Most stop by with a greeting, and the experience feels as much as being at a family dinner table. They offer me a seat and ask if I’d like a plate of food. Any College student, they explain, is welcome to join the Co-op’s dinners each night.
As Student Groups Move Out of the SOCH, Latinx Organizations Work to Preserve Decades of History
Fatima C. Mendoza ’26 and Lucia C. Lopez ’28 were among the student leaders from Latinx organizations who made a joint effort to clear out their designated room of the SOCH. From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on March 6, they moved decades of student group history.
Written in the Stars: Fasting Across Religions at Harvard
This year, a rare lunisolar convergence means several religious fasts overlap: the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Christian season of Lent, the Jewish Fast of Esther, and the Bahá’i Nineteen-Day Fast.
No Grades, Just ‘Profound Discussion’: The Humanities Reading Group
Formed in response to students’ desire for an intellectually stimulating space to probe texts in the humanities without the pressures of comparative metrics such as grades, the new Humanities Reading Group platforms student-led conversation.
The School for Moral Ambition Poses an Alternative To Consulting and Finance. Will Students Follow?
The School for Moral Ambition is an organization hoping to direct college students at elite universities into careers with meaningful impacts. This past fall, they began a fellowship program aiming to counter the pull of finance and consulting. The university fellowship, exclusive to Harvard students, provides 12 juniors with a stipend of $15,000.
Dorm Room Architecture
From hallway doubles to six-person megasuites, the spatial layout of first-year dorms shapes the way students experience community.
Retiring from Work to School: HILR and a Lifelong Liberal Arts Education
The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement program currently engages around 500 retired seniors from the Greater Boston area in a peer-learning and teaching model. Participants design and enroll in more than 120 course offerings that span a multitude of topics.
“Crusties”: The Harvard Band’s Extraordinary Alumni
It might seem odd to most people to see a raucous band with 18- and 80-year-olds marching alongside one another, but for the Harvard Band, it’s embedded into tradition.
Students Shelve the First-Year Librarian Program
The First-Year Librarian program seeks to alleviate “library anxiety,” but most first-years on campus seem unaware of the initiative.
Farnsworth, the Hidden Gem of Lamont
In the shadow of Widener’s dense textbooks and philosophical essays, and Houghton’s Shakespeare folios, this corner of Lamont offers something different – the permission to read for fun.
Why Are There Yiddish Napkins in Harvard’s Archives?
The Judaica Collection is in a league of its own, not just in its organizational structure, but in its scope and scale.
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