Students

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

1.23.2026

At the 2026 Davos summit, the Canadian prime minister echoes Harvard’s Joseph Nye.

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

What's up with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Might this soft-spoken junior from Arizona be the most talented quarterback to play football for Harvard since...

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...

9.1.2003

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...

7.1.2003

My first Harvard memory is deciding not to go here. I had never really considered attending, but my high-school principal, a big Harvard...

3.1.2003

(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...

1.1.2003

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...

11.1.2002

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...