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For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Dating at Harvard circa 2002

For the first two years of my college career, I was single. Though I dated a bit, I found the romantic waters of Harvard Yard extremely cold...

by Arianne R. Cohen

Bear Market

In recent years, the annual fall career forum at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center has been one of the most conspicuous displays of the many...

by Eugenia V. Levenson

A Woman's Studies

I can't explain what I study at Harvard. I am a women's-studies concentrator. After a two-year stint of floating through five large academic...

by Arianne R. Cohen

Back in the Game

In the fall of my freshman year, I arrived in Cambridge with a lot of baggage. The family station wagon was nearly bursting with my hastily...

by Eugenia V. Levenson

Loss

One of the trying rituals faced by a newly arrived freshman at Harvard is that of endless introduction. It is almost impossible not to feel...

by Kirstin Butler

Human origins driven by technological and cultural revolutions

Ofer Bar-Yosef argues that cultural and technological revolutions have been more important than biological ones during the past 100, 000 years.

by Jonathan Shaw

Questions 101

The countdown began on February 28. I was jogging across Tercentenary Theatre (coincidentally, the site of my impending graduation) when I was...

by Kirstin Butler

Orlando Patterson on Freedom and our sick democracy

America's troubled democracy