Word: likings
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...potential embarrassment or shame of doing so publicly; it reflects an undergraduate culture constantly connected to the internet, and at once deeply atomized as a result. The blog serves as an outlet in which students can vent misfortune, hilarity, depression, anger, and intrigue all at once. Often it seems like posts arise from the need to express something desperately, or even just to admit to the world that a sentiment or event exists...
This is why the body of distress and anxiety that is HarvardFML cannot simply be dismissed as irrelevant—every community has its own normal state, around which good and bad become dependent on the shared conditions, and websites like HarvardFML reveal the status quo. “I am a closeted gay man in a final club. FML,” reads one post, expressing a sentiment that betrays the particular heteronormativity and final club atmosphere at Harvard that those outside our community might not have have experienced. The distress expressed is not negated simply because the writer...
Soheyla D. Gharib, the chief of medicine at Harvard University Health Services, said she has seen a slight decline in the number of students coming into the clinic with flu-like symptoms. She added, however, that the downturn could be due to the beginning of reading and exam period, when students are often too busy to visit...
Some international students like Kogos—as well as some students who live in the U.S. but far from Cambridge—are taken under the wing of the Harvard Freshman Host Family Program. Coordinated through the Freshman Dean’s Office, the program pairs freshman with local college alumni who share their academic and personal interests in order to help ease the students’ transition into University life...
...Host families have been a great resource for a lot of students because it can be a challenging transition from high school to college and from their hometown to Cambridge,” Chan said. “I feel like it’s made the difference for me because my host parents are objective observers who are removed from your daily life but live in the community and know what Harvard is like...