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...second is to be popular. The Undergraduate Council has always been the most popular student group on campus. Ad-Board reform, the month of January off, 24-hour Lamont, chocolate milk in the dining halls, the 2 a.m. party deadline, $450,000 in student-group funding, the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies, and organizing a big tailgate. These are all popular things that have made us popular. As a result our members have no problem getting accepted into our nation’s finest graduate programs and fellowships, and, more importantly, we tend to live longer...

Author: By John F. Bowman | Title: Harvard Will Get Better Once the Seniors are Gone | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Before I wrote the second draft of this parting shot, my best friend and I sat down on our common-room floor and had another one of our by-now ritual conversations. It didn’t involve anthropologists. Instead, we talked about the realizations we had come to at Harvard—mostly, that we had grown up and grown to appreciate people and ideas more. That we had changed much since freshman year and that we are, thanks to this place, ready to move on from Harvard but not from the people we talked with here...

Author: By Alina Voronov | Title: Feet Pointed Upward | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

It’s our job to actually take the extra second to go beyond the immediate outrage or cynicism and recognize that, honestly, whatever is causing your struggles is likely trivial. 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...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden | Title: First-World Problems: Navigating our Struggles | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...second year in a row, Boston remained the post-graduate destination of choice for Harvard seniors, with 24.4 percent of the class citing it as their home-to-be, but New York rated a very close second, drawing 24.3 percent of seniors, after falling last year to just one-fifth of the class.  A tenth of the class will be heading to California, and a little over 5 percent will take up residence in Washington...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Survey 2010 | 5/25/2010 | See Source »

...from Georgetown to live in Boston with Rachel while she completed her final semester at Harvard. “We didn’t want to do the long-distance thing anymore when we were married,” Rachel says. Since she had taken five classes in the second semester of her freshman year, Rachel was able to arrange her schedule so that she could graduate in December of her senior year...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wedding: Rachel Esplin Odell '10 and Scott Odell | 5/25/2010 | See Source »

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