I Didn’t Deserve To Be Admitted To Harvard

Can Harvard’s admissions office actually determine who deserves an acceptance letter? Probably not.

It’s My Right To Pull an All-Nighter, Canvas.

As we recover from our fifteen hours without Canvas, we should reflect on how sites like these affect our lives and those around us — for better and for worse. All I ask is this: Professors, please extend a little compassion to us students and give us back our evenings.

Percentage of Students Pursuing Multiple Concentrations

Can’t Concentrate? Lose the Double.

Today, many Harvard students know two things well — and nothing else.

Losing (It): The Small Spectacle of Student Government

We relegate our classmates to mere voters, pawns in our political games. We debate in front of a nearly nonexistent audience for an election where most students don’t even vote. The emperor doesn’t know he wears no clothes.

I Was Wrong About Denaming Winthrop. Here’s Why.

But in the meantime, perhaps the silver lining of Winthrop’s “non-denaming denaming” is that we can each remember what Harvard used to — and still chooses to — honor.

With Discipline Changes, Harvard Listened to Trump — Not Students

Harvard’s discipline problem starts with who’s missing from the room. Until students win seats at the table and presidential decree is swapped for participatory governance, inconsistent justice simply becomes consistent injustice.

When They Go Low, We Go DEI

Unless Harvard is willing to say that it does not care, it must act to support DEI. But until our University makes its support public and concrete, we shouldn’t assume it does.

Harvard Students Don’t Need To Work Harder. Administrators Do.

While the College has needlessly zeroed in on making the academic realm inordinately demanding, it does so at the expense of the other — arguably more important — transformations.

This Housing Day, Dename Winthrop House

As soon as Winthropians stormed my dorm, I started praying the house would be renamed before I graduated, maybe to DuBois House, Winthrop (Perkins Boynton) House, or even Adams House II.

Faculty Time Caps Hurt Harvard’s Students, Too

Simply put, we, the students, deserve good teachers. By refusing to end time caps, the University won’t let us keep them.

Harvard Classes Don’t Have To Be This Boring

So, as the College reconciles with the findings of the Classroom Social Compact Committee, I’ll remind them that if they want active students, they need to embrace active learning.

Winter Break is Too Long

And if we want more holidays — like Election Day, the week of Thanksgiving, or a fall break — the days have to come from somewhere. Rather than let winter break hoard all of them, we could spread them a little more equitably throughout the year.

How (Not) to Choose a President

As the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, begins reviewing its selection process for University President Alan Garber’s successor, one thing is clear: higher education needs a champion.

Harvard Needs More International Students

Harvard claims to be committed to promoting diversity, even after the downfall of affirmative action. It should be. It’s important for Harvard to represent all of the people of our country — but why draw the line at our borders?