Fifteen Superlative Seniors
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Allure transforms pink — a typically soft, demure, “girly” shade — into a color with teeth. They are a nonbinary femme lesbian, and they remix the rules of femininity in order to represent their identity.
The Life of the Party: Madison Pankey
Find her at Grendel’s on Wednesday nights, or “Grendsdays” as she enthusiastically refers to them, on Thursday nights at The Burren, an Irish pub in Somerville, and in the occasional “big functions” that pop up around campus over the weekend. But most importantly, she finds it in all the nights spent with her friends.
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Matthew Cole sits in the Hasty Pudding’s library. He will be a cast member in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals for a fourth time this year.
alexander chen
Those who do know the real Alexander Chen are absolutely mystified by how he manages to do so many goddamn things.
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Henry and Tobias both participate in the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers.
Most Whimsical: Jeremy Ornstein
“One of my most whimsical qualities is talking to strangers,” he says. In the summer of 2021, he walked 400 miles from New Orleans to Houston talking to strangers about climate change. “We just stopped everyone we could and talked to them — talked to a truck driver about the coastal erosion, and a guy in an excavator, and a fisherman,” he continues.
alex wright
For Alex Wright, navigating high-pressure situations is second nature. When I ask him about the most dangerous things he’s done, hot wiring a plane doesn’t even make the list.
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Henry N. Haimo and Tobias A.A. Benn first met through the mentorship program for Humanities 10.
Best Advice Giver: Matilda Marcus
The term “best friend” rolls off Matilda’s tongue often. “Best Friend” — itself a superlative — implies one chosen from many, but that definition wouldn’t do for Matilda: they use the tag for many people in their life.
Isa Pena
In the fall of freshman year, Isa Peña ’23-’24 received an email from the producers of American Idol, inviting her to audition. “It was a total ‘roll with the punches’ moment. I couldn’t let an opportunity like that pass me by,” she says.
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“One of my most whimsical qualities is talking to strangers,” Jeremy Ornstein says.
Tatiana Miranda
Tatiana Miranda ’24 is writing a thesis about how Joker fanfiction writers, particularly those who have marginalized identities, use their writing to reckon with their experiences.
Fez Zafar
Fez S. Zafar ’24 moves through the world trying to maximize his run-ins with people he wants to talk to.
Mira-Rose Kingsbury-Lee
Mira-Rose J. Kingsbury Lee ’24, the Renaissance Person of her senior class, has written and produced three musicals at Harvard, and she’s working on a fourth: this spring’s Hasty Pudding show and brings the same enthusiasm to the microscopic organisms of our intestines as she does to the characters in her musicals.
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“You can literally feel the golden light pouring through the room,” Kang tells me. “I kind of stand here and photosynthesize.”
Audrey Kang
Audrey N. Kang ’24 was elected for having the most class spirit out of the Class of 2024. “HoCo is honestly the best thing that I’ve done,” she says.
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Upon entering Arjun A. Akwei’24's dorm, I was greeted by his big smile and a tidied shoe rack — the epitome of culture and order.
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In Arjun's dorm is a nook with three red armchairs, a faux taxidermy deer mount, and a wall covered with a wood-patterned wallpaper to “emulate the old Harvard aesthetic,” he explains.
Micah Williams
Micah I. Williams ’24's long-term dream in life is to build a pizza oven. Maybe also to build a house with a huge greenhouse and spend four or five hours a day making soup.