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Flyby Investigates: Henrys at Harvard
Henry is the 23rd most popular name on campus. Why? We’re not quite sure.
How to Survive a Lamont All-Nighter
All-nighters are where undergrads become champions, but don’t let being ill-prepared ruin your academic weapon status. So use these tried-and-true tips to make it through the night, and may the Lamont odds be ever in your favor.
HUPD Police Log: Reading Period Edition
The countdown to the end of the semester has been flying by — lol, get it? — but for HUPD, it’s definitely felt like an eternity given all of our shenanigans. Campus is still bustling with activity, and we’re here to share it all with you.
How to Get a Fête Plus One
If you’re not one of the lucky few in Eliot, you’ve probably been scheming since last spring to secure a coveted plus one to Fête… and now it’s four days out, and you still don’t have a ticket. The good news? Flyby, as always, is here to help. Here are ten methods you can try to win yourself a spot at this *elite* black-tie affair.
Reading Period Affirmations
As we binge hours of Panopto lectures, abuse all of Canvas’s possible features, and leave scathing QGuide reviews, here are a few affirmations to help make this unbearable season just a little less miserable.
Flyby Tries: Letting ChatGPT Determine My Finals Study Schedule
And as final exams roll around (they’re in a week, people: insanity), I have found myself without a study schedule for my exams. Being resourceful, I had ChatGPT do it for me.
So What Had Happened Was… Visitas 2025
While the sight of a gazillion red lanyards made us die a little inside, we’d be lying if we said that prefrosh’s presence on campus wasn’t entertaining. Here are some highlights from our encounters with prefrosh this weekend.
Things to NOT Bring to Harvard
This one’s for our incoming prefrosh — the Class of 2025 may not ever meet you because we are old, but I hope my senior wisdom will stay with you until Commencement Day 2029. Let’s get packing…
Do They Even Go Here?
Here are some foolproof ways to verify that your new Visitas BFF isn’t a 30-year-old social experiment in disguise or a ~pathological liar~ with a deep love for free tote bags and a vendetta against the admissions process.
How to Emulate a Harvard Local
As Visitas finally rolls around, we are so excited to have you (prefrosh) all on campus! That being said, you shouldn’t make it obvious that you’re new here. Here are some notes to keep things cool and casual on campus — spark up your alter ego and convince everyone that you’ve been around the Yard once or twice!
Visitas, Not Veritas: A Time For Reinvention
For those of you who might find the Visitas fresh start daunting or in case you’re feeling a little uninspired, here are some ideas for the new identity you can take on, whether for the weekend or for the next four years.
What I Wish I Knew at Visitas
I’m here 2 tell you 9 things to know for Visitas. (See what I did there?)
Your Visitas Home Base, Revealed
If you’re wondering whether the Visitas gods have cursed you or blessed you with a halfway decent floor to crash on, don’t worry — we’ve got you. Here’s our very official, extremely accurate, and absolutely unbiased round-up of the upperclassman dorms you might stay in during Visitas weekend!
“We Know a Spot”
Unfortunately for you, your amateur campus tour guide's suggestions are bound to be lacking. If you’d like to avoid walking ten thousand miles this weekend for no real reason, you’ll listen to us.
How to Win at Visitas
While we can’t give you a step-by-step guide for making the most of Visitas (or can we?), we can lay out some of the tried and true strategies for winning at it.
29 Words for the Class of 2029
Make sure to pull out some of these terms to make you blend in as a true… Harvardian? Cantabrigian? Crimson?
Visitas
April is nearly over, but if you’re anticipating a smooth cruise into May, you’re sorely mistaken. Unfortunately, the fact that you can now count the remaining days of classes on two hands — finally — only entices your professors to stress test the limit on the number of deadlines they can set within a five-day period. (Lucky you.) There’s also the not-so-small matter of welcoming another class of students to campus. Yes, that’s right, it’s already time for Visitas 2025! Here’s our welcome to the Class of 2029.
Dressing to Impress: Your Guide to the Visitas Runway
Your guide to being voted “Best Dressed at Visitas."
How To Enjoy the Semi-Nice Weather
If April showers bring May flowers, what should Harvard students do in the meantime?
Better Ways to Pick Who Gets to See Joe Biden
Around 50 students had the opportunity to see former President Joe Biden talk last week, while hundreds of others took to Sidechat to voice their complaints. The decision process was confusing at best, so we decided to take the liberty of proposing better — and more fun — ways to decide on the shortlist for meeting the former President next time.
Where is “Catch of the Day” REALLY caught?
“Catch of the Day” is “locally sourced” fish served in Harvard College dining halls. But with such a potent odor, where is this fish really caught? We’d like to take you through a couple of our ideas.
How To Not Ride a Scooter (A Crash Course)
Hypothetically, if one of our writers were a scooter-er-er, this is how they would rank things they have or have almost annihilated (from oopsies to Remy).
Flyby Tries: Touching Grass (Again But Different)
If you still want to salvage the latter half of the semester, what better solution is there than to “touch grass”? I present to you: my opinions on which locations on (and off) campus are the best for reconnecting with nature.
My Top Five Favorite Tourist Spawns
One of our writers has noticed that the tourists — easily their favorite Harvard NPCs — tend to fall into specific spawn types, which they've decided to rank in order of how much they love them.