Diary | September-October 2001 Siren Song October 31, 2000, 4 p.m. I've just had one of those brief but potent conversations in which a casual comment by someone I scarcely know hits me... Students | 7.1.1997 From Lonely to Alone Until the night before I left for winter break my first year, Harvard was enchanted. The people were winged, the ideas were utopian, the Yard was sylvan bliss. But that night, Harvard gave up another side of itself: its loneliness. Students | 1.1.1997 Read Better, Sleep More A primer on teaching undergraduates how to read the right way Students | 9.1.1996 Tying the Knot Navigating College life after committing matrimony