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Being a full-time student at Harvard is enough to make anyone’s head spin. But try being a biomedical engineering concentrator and contemporary dancer as well as a ballerina. This is the case for Lauren E. Chin ’08-’09. Luckily, her poise and grace managed to carry her pirouetting to the OFA’s Suzanne Farrell Dance Award. The prize—whose namesake was once the prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet—is given to the Harvard undergraduate who has demonstrated exemplary artistry...
...Harvard’s graduating class have doubtless pondered the ultimate meaning of their hard-earned diplomas. For 17-odd years in the classroom, success has been relatively easy to define: Good work is, in theory, awarded with good grades; the higher the grade, the more consummately the student has achieved her task. Quantified through its positioning in an alphabetical hierarchy, academic success is seemingly straightforward. Yet, once we depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible form is money. Rather than engaging in the overwhelming process...
...September, the newly designed programming created a favorable buzz among students and garnered support and partnerships with many student clubs and organizations. The programs were designed to educate students about pathways, connect them with alumni, and make transparent the different strategies needed to connect to opportunities in disparate career areas...
...unreasonable that Munir be forced to leave America and family before finishing his studies. Munir has applied for deferred action so that he can finish his degree at Harvard, and this is where the University can play an important role in protecting one of its students from deportation. Harvard has one of the strongest support networks for international students. But the Harvard International Office—supposedly dedicated to helping students like Munir navigate the byzantine bureaucracy of the American immigration system—has shown a deplorable lack of involvement in his case. While the HIO bends over backward...
...isn’t often that struggling college students can make $4000 in a single weekend through legal means. But in the Student Art Show—the first of its kind at Harvard, taking place through May 4—56 student artists from varying sectors of the community will have the opportunity to display and sell their work...