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

by Olivia Farrar

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

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

Upstairs, Downstairs

Students and staff

by Kirstin Butler

The Anti-thesis

I've always had difficulty with conclusions. Writing a 101-page senior thesis may have only made my problem worse. I should have heeded the...

by Geoffrey A. Fowler

Fashion Victims?

I have to ask. I've seen it every day for three years now. Take your pick of location: the main doors of Sever and Emerson ....

by Caille Millner

Outside Interests

There are some ways in which Harvard College, for all its history and prestige, is a normal college with normal students. The undergraduates are...

by Caille Millner