Crimson opinion writer

Mac M. Mertens

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Life, Laundry, and the Pursuit of Cleanliness

When students are discouraged from doing their laundry by unnecessary financial barriers, washing machines wear out faster, students get sicker, and campus becomes less pleasant overall. As it showed the week after spring break, Harvard has the ability to make our laundry free. So why doesn’t it?


Learning to Lose, Love, and Leave My Accent Behind

Whenever I talk about my sometimes-beloved sometimes-hated home, it's always with an accent. But the Southern accent I use here in Cambridge isn’t “the accent.” I use my painstakingly-researched “neutral” accent. That isn’t “my accent.”