Geoffrey Martello
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How To Have a Great Thanksgiving Break
For those students not headed home for the holiday, Flyby is here to help you make some last-minute plans with your roommate/bestie/anyone that will take you in or is in the same position.
How Your Liberal Arts Degree Prepares You to Consult
To simplify your introspection and facilitate your career exploration, Flyby has outlined the various skillsets that many of you already possess based on your academic concentrations at Harvard. This evidence-based (don’t ask for citations) report describes those skills which are seamlessly translatable to a job at any top management consulting firm.
The Best $10 You'll Ever Spend
Are you a sophomore premed already disenamored with Chem 17? What about a freshman who already failed to finish his first CS 50 problem set even though students receive an extra 10 days this year? If so, have no fear. Though the first Add/Drop deadline has tragically passed, Harvard students still have until the Fifth Monday (October 3) to finalize their course schedules for the fall semester (and even then, why is everyone so scared of the dreaded W?). For the steep price of $10 a course (and the next 60 seconds of your life, which is all Flyby can really ask for at this point), we’ll will give you the lowdown on which courses to pick up to repair your broken semester.
Flyby's Predictions for Housing Day Anthems
Some Houses have already released previews of their 2016 Housing Day videos, but we are not yet convinced that the Dark Side (or long and drawn-out scrolling lines of text fading into the vast expanse of outer space) looks good on Dunster, or that Eliot really needs to apologize for anything (or maybe it should – see below). For HoCos that have not started making their videos yet, here are some recommendations based on an appraisal of your House character.
You Say Potato, I Say… Potato
Despite a growing number of new HUDS initiatives directed at offering students healthier and more well-balanced meals, we have been unable to escape the myriad varieties of deep-fried potato. HUDS offers the humble spud in a number of forms to satisfy your need for starch. These executions succeed to varying degrees.
The T Ride of Doom
A sad Quadling suffers more transportation woes on a snowy Friday.
2015: The Hottest Year On Record Drops Follow-Up Album “Winter in Cambridge 2016”
Will Canada Goose go extinct? Is the hottest year on record to blame?
Snowpocalypse Round Two? ...Probably Not
If you thought last year’s whopping 108 inches of snow was bad, then you might not want to check your weather app this weekend. Just as students arrive back on campus for the new semester, it seems that Harvard is forced to prepare itself for another wintery assault...maybe.
Flyby's Holiday Placemat for Nosy Relatives
A placemat guide for holiday discussions on sensitive college issues with loved ones
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Spring has sprung, and the sun is here to play
Spring has sprung, and the sun is here to play
Cabot
<p> Surrounding the beautiful and exclusive Quad (country club) Lawn, Cabot House is likely to give you the single and spacious suites you have yearned for since orientation week. If that’s still not enough, the “Nutella-me-more,” a latte with nutella, will pull you in for sure. </p>
Currier
<p>What’s better than going to Harvard but also being able to get away from Harvard? Currier’s small size, consistently lauded dining hall, and perfect Uber distance from the Square will make you feel like you have the best of both worlds.</p>
Take a pinch of Boston, add snow, and you've got yourself an epic snowball fight.
Boston Common in springtime. It'll look like this again soon enough. But until then, game on.
No snow for us, thank you very much!
What Memorial Hall won't look like this weekend...we hope.