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Sage S. Lattman
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Jazz Jennings is in Her Self-Care Era
Jazz Jennings’s reality TV show “I Am Jazz” aimed to increase trans visibility by showing she “was just a normal girl going through life, who just happened to be trans.” Now, Jazz is just a normal Harvard student, who also happens to make mermaid tails.
Maia Ramsden on Pro-Running, Pacific Poetry, and Y2K fashion
When Ramsden leaves Harvard for the real world, she’s planning to be a professional runner. I ask her what she’ll miss most. “I think I’ll miss being super busy, even though it’s hard to imagine right now,” she says. “That’s what everyone’s telling me anyway.”
Fifteen Questions: Elena Glassman on Human-Computer Interaction, Freestyle Wrestling, and MIT Dorms
The human-computer interaction expert sat down with FM to discuss software design, the importance of bicycling infrastructure, and her time competing in women’s freestyle wrestling.
At Vilna Shul, Shabbat is a Big Dill
With national attention trained on Harvard the past few months, engaging in Jewish spaces on campus has felt like more of a political endeavor. Pickle-making, gimmicky in all the right ways, was enough to get us out the door.
Picklemaking tea bags
We slice and combine, pour in water and a black tea bag (for crispiness, we’re told), and the whole thing is over faster than we thought.
Picklemaking cover photo
Vilna Shul is a synagogue where Jewish people, often in their 20s and 30s, gather to find community over their shared background through events like picklemaking.
Picklemaking cucumbers photo
There are buckets of cucumbers in an ice bath, stacks of mason jars, and bags of green beans. Each person measures mustard seed, red pepper flakes, and heaping tablespoons of salt.
Other People’s Pups
At the end of the day, I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking to pet his dog.
At the Abigail Adams Institute, the Resurrection of the English Major
Over the cacophony of criticism, one thing rings clear: whether they’re teaching Taylor Swift or Tocqueville, Harvard’s humanities are leaving many unsatisfied.
Ten Harvard Students Selected as Rhodes Scholars from U.S., Pakistan
Ten members of Harvard’s Class of 2024 have been selected as Rhodes Scholars to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford.