FM Year in Review 2017: The Nightshift | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson

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Teen Mag Quiz: Do I Like You or Am I Only Sleeping Over Because I Live in the Quad?

When I get to your dorm, do I have to feign interest in your artwork?

Year in Review: FM Quotes That Also Make Great Tinder Bios

Our cover stories do more than shed light on pressing issues at Harvard. They can also help you scheme cuties.

FM Imagines: Harvard Yard of Broken Dreams

Welcome to the dream journal of a sleep-deprived freshman. She may or may not wake up in Lamont more often than she does in her own dorm room.

Around Town

Hey Professor: What Was Your Harvard Nightlife Like?

Ever wonder what your professors were like during their college years? What about the former Harvard undergrads? Were they Saturday night party-goers or Lamonsters? Bar-hopping or Widener stack-shopping? FM inquired into the social lives of a few professors during their years as Harvard undergrads.

After Dark in the Arabian Peninsula

Scholars of history, architecture, design, film, and anthropology gathered to explore nighttime landscapes and public spaces in the Arabian Peninsula and other places with similarly hot climates.

Conversation

Digitizing the Sky

In the 1880s, Edward Charles Pickering, a stout Harvard astronomer whose deeply angled eyebrows recall an angry cartoon character, took on a new project: photographing the entire sky.

Hey Professor: Light Sleep

Sleep. We spend almost a third of our lives doing it. It’s incredibly important, yet there is still so much we don’t understand.

Features

On the Streets With HSHS Street Team

On a typical Saturday night, Lozano would make a beeline past the final clubs to enter the shelter. There, he would make sandwiches and fill a backpack with bottles of water and V8, hats and gloves.

On the Lookout: Securitas

Oliverio says he can easily tell when a student has had a rough week. Spotting differences in moods and mannerisms is how he’s able to keep a lookout for the welfare of his “kids—I call them kids,” he says. “Sometimes they get offended when I call them that.”

On Air: Baby's First Mosh Pit

Luongo and de los Reyes are nearing the end of their four-year reign over WHRB’s punk rock department, and it’s clear they’ve had a good run.

All the Lights: DJdUm and Electronic at Harvard

A native of the Philippines, Um said he got his start by creating remixes and covers of popular songs while he was in high school. “I started posting my mixes on YouTube, and people asked me to DJ their events,” he says.

The 'What If': Crimson EMS

During the average week, the EMTs monitor between one and five intramural sports games per night and one or two parties per night on weekends.

Introspection

Laura Goes To IHOP

Heat and fluorescence and red-blue-yellow cleanliness spilled out across the sidewalk in a broad half-moon. IHOP glowed with silent vulgarity.

I was raised in the boondocks of Arkansas. The stereotypes that just popped into your mind? They probably apply.

I find the thought of unbridled success even more frightening than the thought of struggling to get there. Indeed, keeping my villain alive just a little while longer kept me struggling, struggling to the bitter end. But she gave me a reason to get up in the morning. I needed her.

Lonely Together

We don’t have to share our most personal space, our most personal lives, with someone else. Oftentimes, though, I want to.

My Grandmother's Books

“So,” she would say, “what are you reading now?”

Retrospection

Take Back the Night

Peggy S. Mason ’82 says she saw Harvard’s need for the march, which could serve as a space for women and targets of sexual assault to find empowerment and support.

Eyes to the Sky: Annie Jump Cannon and the Harvard Observatory

While Cannon’s system of classification was respected by and essential to the astronomical community, it was dubbed the “Harvard System,” erasing Cannon’s name from its history.

Students by the Charles

Students enjoy a warm spring evening down by the Charles.

By Charles K. Michael

Havard Business School

Harvard Business School sits on the Boston side of the Charles.

By Charles K. Michael

Branches by the Charles

Many trees line the banks of the Charles.

By Charles K. Michael

Editors’ Note

Welcome to the night shift.

For FM’s ultimate issue of the year, we’re bringing you stories of nocturnal adventures and the people who seek them out. From nighttime security guards and student EMTs to aspiring DJs and midnight radio hosts and beyond, this week’s featured section is chock-full of interesting folks who come out after dark. Find out who makes up Harvard’s overnight crew, and what they get up to at night. We think they’re worth the read—even in the middle of the night. On the lighter side, this week’s levity leans heavily towards things that go bump in the night, and yes, we mean that in a get-your-mind-out-of-the-gutter way. Find out what your dreams mean, whether that quadling’s really into you or just about real estate, and the most swipe-rightable quotes we published in FM this year.

We’ve also curated a number of night-themed musings for your enjoyment. This week’s thoughtful introspection writers tell powerful stories about home and love and loss; the kind of strange, magic stories that take place under the stars. As you might guess, the mood of the issue skews a little pensive, a little somber. It’s not the kind of issue best read over lunch. Instead, we’d suggest tucking this away and saving it for sometime long after sundown. Read this issue at an open-late diner, or at the top of the Science Center Observatory. Bring a warm blanket and a flashlight.

There’s a lot to ponder here. Don’t turn out the lights just yet. Thanks for a great semester,

EKT & LEH

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