Ezra H. Stoller

Unpaid Internships: A Priceless Experience?

If experience is a currency, who’s paying? Companies and organizations pay interns experience as compensation for their time and labor. Students, in turn, pay for this experience as one would, say, pay to study abroad. And whether the money comes from students, parents, or Harvard’s funding resources, that willingness to pay helps to sustain an increasingly criticized internship system.

Bistro Lev

This year, rumor has it that Leverett Dining Hall has rebranded itself as “Bistro Lev” due to Cambridge zoning laws which currently classify it as an assembly/residence. While we can’t speak to the truth of this, we know for certain that Harvard’s food scene has irrevocably changed.

Panel Discusses Potential Pedagogical Reform

Speaking to a packed crowd at the Graduate School of Education Wednesday night, linguist Noam Chomsky and other panelists argued for an education model that promotes a reciprocal relationship between teacher and student.

15 Hottest... Portraits!

FM's 15 Hottest Freshmen Issue (coming out this Thursday!) celebrates the beauty of our campus's newest faces. What about some of the oldest? Flyby is proud to present Harvard's Fifteen Hottest Portraits (2013 Edition).

Hop on Board!(Plus.)

Today, as I checked out of the Greenhouse Café in the Science Center, I looked up at the cash register to see that my remaining BoardPlus balance was $0.00. I actually had to finish paying for my two slices of Tuesday lunch pizza with cold, hard cash. I am humbled. Done with BoardPlus for the semester. About ready to go home. Now what? For those of you who still have copious amounts left to spend, I have two things to say to you.

List-servs We Wish We Were On

The Harvard Computer Society keeps archives of all College list-servs, including their names as well as the emails exchanged through them. Many of these archives are only accessible to members of the lists themselves, but plenty of them are wide open. Let that sink in for a moment. Remember that email full of Spider-Man gifs you sent across your dorm list freshman year? It’s accessible until the end of time. And that’s just the beginning of what FM found. We now know your secrets.

Thinking Outside the Solo Cup

On Harvard’s campus, as on those of other colleges, alcohol is by all accounts accessible and abundant. A red Solo cup is a ubiquitous accessory to many social events. Yet despite the presence of alcohol on campus, a number of Harvard students choose not to drink. For many of these students, this decision is based on a variety of personal factors, all challenging the assumption that social life in college necessarily involves alcohol.

Modern Love: Snail Mail

My grandma screens my calls. When I call she lets the phone ring, waits for me to identify myself on the answering machine, then picks up the receiver hastily. I can’t see her, but I imagine her adjusting the phone carefully so as not to offset her gray permed hair, which she bobby-pins every morning. “Am I holding the phone to my ear correctly? Can you hear me?” she asks.

Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted, co-Masters of Eliot House from 2000-2010, love to read. Their portrait is located - appropriately- in the Eliot House library.

Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans keeps a watchful eye on students as they enter (and hopefully) exit Lamont. He is the front desk’s second pair of eyes, making sure you open your laptop case, and the front pocket of your backpack on your way out.

Steve Mitchell and Kristine Forsgard, co-Masters of Eliot House, endure the process of house randomization stoically.

Thomas Lamont happily in…Lamont. Tommy, like all good Lamonsters, never sleeps.

This warm, avuncular face, framed by the emblematic yellow walls of Lowell Dining Hall, can't wait to give you a hug. Or tell you a story. Or something!!

Clarence H. Haring, Master of Dunster House from 1934-48, is so generous with his time! WHILE HE WAS READING, he let the artist paint his portrait.

Is she wearing a pendant or an amulet? Either way, don’t mess with this cool, calm, and collected lady, who lives in Lowell House Dining Hall.

John Winthrop -- wearing circle scarves before they were cool.

A true pioneer of the hand-on-hip attitude! No matter what time of day, he is bringing it.

Doesn't matter whether you pick 1% or fat-free - nothing can compare to the richness of those robes.