“Even in the silly costumes we sewed for the Pudding, she could just do so much,” Bajramovic said. “She came in the first day to the costume shop where we work and all of the sudden sat at the sewing machine and started at it.”

“There was no learning curve,” Bajramovic added. “She was good at everything.”

Felix L. J. Cook ’13, a friend and fellow member of Crimson Key Society, said that Chang’s outgoing spirit perfectly suited the service organization.

“She embodied everything we were supposed to be—gregarious, fun, friendly,” Cook said. “She was just amazing to be around.... I don’t know what the Crimson Key will be like without her.”

Chang, an avid painter pursuing a secondary field in visual and environmental studies, further demonstrated her passion for the arts as a designer for the Harvard Advocate.

“She was a crucial figure in the life of the Advocate and the Advocate community,” said Julian B. Gewirtz ’13, who was the publisher of the literary journal during Chang’s second year as a designer. “It’s a really staggering and overwhelming loss.”

Gewirtz recalled that one day, when working on the layout for the Advocate, he told Chang he was going on a coffee run. She told him that there was an amazing drink at Crema Café that he needed to try—a white cranberry juice and rooibos tea called Red Nectar.

Gewirtz said he ordered the drink, because on these matters, “Always trust Wendy.” It was fantastic, Gewirtz added.

“And every time I have that drink, even long before today, I would always think, ‘Oh, Wendy’s Drink,’” Gewirtz said. “It is that kind of small gesture that she made, that cumulatively will be one of the many ways that we will remember her and extend her memory into our own lives, which I suppose is the only thing that one can do.”

—Staff writer Melanie A. Guzman can be reached at melanieguzman@college.harvard.edu