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Parting Shot

Commencement 2010

Feet Pointed Upward

Maybe the value of having conversations is obvious even to freshmen, but it can’t be fully appreciated until the end of senior year, when one has grown as much as one can in this place.

Commencement 2010

First-World Problems: Navigating our Struggles

First-world problems are laughable; as such, they should make you laugh, recognize the absurdity of the situation, and move on with being happy. Because here, we have no reason not to be.

Commencement 2010

The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire

Harvard, loosen up, so that your students can do the same. Get rid of GPA incentives, the Core or Gen Ed, and make it easier for students to use their imaginations for things besides financial models.

Commencement 2010

Four Years Later

Last week a sophomore asked me to sum up my Harvard experience.

Commencement 2010

Herr Widener

On the days when the work upon my back has weighed like the world upon Atlas, the façade of Widener Library, looming closer with each step, has often seemed to be opening its palatial, ravenous jaws to swallow me whole for untold hours.

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