Zoe Yu

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Opinion

Harvard Isn’t a Trade School. It’s a Liberal Arts Institution.

By Zoe Yu  • 

The alternative — going four years without learning anything beyond what’s good for the trade, emerging employable but not educated — is a cost we can’t be willing to pay.

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Opinion

Say No to Screens. Say Yes To Learning.

By Zoe Yu  • 

No-screen policies don’t undermine student autonomy. It gives our autonomy back to us. It’s a different, better kind of freedom — not the freedom to do what you want in class, but to do what you should.

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Opinion

Hustle Harder, Harvard

By Zoe Yu  • 

This way of fetishizing work, this idea that you can’t be successful without struggling like crazy, has become a masochistic obsession so deeply lodged into Harvard culture that we’re starting to believe that it might actually be true.