Who Harvard Tests and What that Means

For all the talk of Harvard as home, the College — beyond my academic responsibilities — is fairly absent from my life. Some days, I feel like I’ve already graduated and am just checking off the last boxes for the diploma.

Who’s Afraid of the Harvard Shadow Campus?

The truth is students living off-campus have all the capacity they need to make smart social distancing choices.

First-Person Leadership and Bacow’s Climate Crisis

Bacow is not a climate change denier, and he admits there’s work to do. But there’s something absent from his voice — some quality of sureness and authenticity that I’ve grown to associate with the tone of his presidency.

Summer Postcard: Hungry in Hebron

My stomach really does hurt — right in the upper left corner, hot and sharp — but I can’t tell if it is the hunger or a sense of shame.

Summer Postcard: Hebron

Why Love a Tree

There is a greater symbolic value to the tree, and it shocks me that one of the world’s preeminent institutions of semiotic thought seems so unable to grasp it.

In Memoriam: the HOCice

If Harvard wishes to guide the undergraduate body toward a more inclusive model of social life, it needs to create more spaces for students to socialize.