Students
Narratives and news capturing the lives, struggles, and achievements of current students.
Mark Carney on the Limits of Soft Power
At the 2026 Davos summit, the Canadian prime minister echoes Harvard’s Joseph Nye.
Parenting, Redux
Junior Parents’ Weekend brings The Undergraduate a new perspective on the future.
Life in Detail
Of archives, libraries, personal memories, and Sylvia Plath
Making Mingling Manageable
Undergraduate columnist Christian Flow ponders the strange social science of mingling.
Buzzing In
Quiz Bowl’s quirky intellectualism and hard-driving competitiveness energize a strong Harvard team.
Four Seniors Win Marshall Scholarships
The program affords students two years of graduate study at a U.K. university of their choosing.
2008-09 Rhodes Scholars Named
The winners include two Harvard seniors and one doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education.
Creating Space to Contemplate Success
Harvard pushes undergraduates to ponder life’s big questions.
Powerful Conversations
Ariel Phillips and Abigail Lipson head the Success-Failure Project at the Harvard Bureau of Study Counsel.
Youthful Dreams
The Undergraduate reflects on how good and bad dreams shape the way we grow up.
Job Notices
Programs that match Harvard College students with jobs and internships