Students

Narratives and news capturing the lives, struggles, and achievements of current students.

11.13.2025

How Harvard researchers are helping to build a virtual model of the human heart

5.1.2005

The senior-year job hunt began as many do: with the purchasing of a suit at the end of the summer. Mine was a black, pinstripe ensemble that my...

3.1.2005

It's hard to escape San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past...

11.1.2004

Photomontages by Flint Born Some people live at the technological vanguard. They operate their tie racks by remote control and read the...

9.1.2004

I make decisions on a whim, decisions prompted by sudden changes in interest—and subject to immediate retraction once I've recovered sense...

9.1.2004

Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call...

7.1.2004

They're dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, the Persian rugs, and the oak tables. The room is reverberating to a song called...

5.1.2004

The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and...

3.1.2004

Thayer. 2 a.m. Six freshmen, clad in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit?...

1.1.2004

I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood...

11.1.2003

The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city's thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin Street to...