Students
Narratives and news capturing the lives, struggles, and achievements of current students.
From Jellyfish to Digital Hearts
How Harvard researchers are helping to build a virtual model of the human heart
No Answers for O-
The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city's thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin Street to...
Debunking the Double
On the third day of my eight-week stint as a summer-school proctor, the mother of one of my charges reminded me of the difficulties that can...
What Crimson Means to Me
My first Harvard memory is deciding not to go here. I had never really considered attending, but my high-school principal, a big Harvard...
Accidental Academics
(Please note that I should not be writing this column: I have a thesis chapter due on Thursday and pages to go before I sleep...) Harvard...
A-courting They Shall Go
A month before our plans of study came due last May, many of my fellow first-years became frantic. Having to choose our concentrations when we...
Crimson, White, and Blue
On a campus steeped in lore and history, perhaps no history is more visibly honored than that of Harvard's warriors. Since the earliest days of...
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...
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...
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...