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An Open Letter to My Stolen Bicycle
Electric blue, shining brighter than the ocean at low tide, glistening like the sky on a hot summer day. Summer days like the ones when I was twelve, riding up and down my neighborhood street, delivering pies to my grandmother. Summer days like the one spent traversing the Providence Bike Path, stopping for Dell’s frozen lemonade. Summer days like the one when you were taken too soon from me.
Flyby Investigates: Can Harvard Teach Me How to Swim?
Welcome back, folks! You’re all tanner and more well-rested than ever before. But while some of you were jetting off to Bora Bora and Cancun (#boring), I went on my own all-inclusive vacation. I’m talking about a 25-yard private island with water as far as the eye can see. Yup, this summer I ventured to the one and only Malkin Athletic Center.
Day in the Life of a Performative Visitas Student
Check out a day in the life of a performative Visitas Student.
Flyby Investigates: Can I Skip Add/Drop Week?
Wondering what the point of last week was? Already planning to extend your summer break, but aren’t sure if it’s a good idea? Well, never fear, flyby is here. We skipped add/drop week, so you don’t have to, and gave the inside scoop on whether you should give it a try next term.
The True Winners of the Cambridge Half
Did you or the most annoying person you know run the Cambridge Half and choose to make it their entire personality on Sunday? Well, I did. And I can tell you the true winners are not the runners biting their participation medals but the hordes of people who woke up at 7 a.m. on Halloweekend to support their mentally ill friends. I spent my whole 13.1 miles reading your signs, and they saved me from taking a jump right off Week’s bridge.
Hot or Not: 2025 Halloween Costumes
With Halloweekend on the horizon, almost every conversation in the dhall will bring up the question “what are you going to be?” Whether you have five costumes or haven’t bothered to come up with anything yet, we here at Flyby have compiled a list of the popular costumes we expect to see the most of — and, more importantly, what our takes on each are. Feel free to use these as inspiration, a warning, or a bingo card in spying the most trendy Halloween costumes prowling Tasty Basty.
Hazed by Harvard
Harvard’s decided to crack down on hazing under a new federal law. Blindfolds, drinking, and a conga line? That’s worth a suspension, according to the College. Now that to me just sounds like a boring Saturday night on campus. (Don’t judge.) So, I’ve decided to compile a list, in lieu of a formal complaint, of Harvard experiences that should now be designated as hazing. Maybe we could suspend them, too.
How To: Reject Rejection
Whether it’s HUCG or your dining hall crush, rejection is hard. Brush it off and save your campus image through any number of these suave, nonchalant excuses as to why your newest letdown has left you unperturbed.
A Harvard Horror Story
A quiet campus is terrorized by a greedy bureaucracy. Follow the story of one student as she attempts to navigate a multitude of summer policy changes that will alter her Harvard experience forever.
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Tercentenary Theatre Trees
Say Tercentenary Theatre Trees five times fast.
