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House: Mather, baby. Concentration: VES Film Studies. Hometown: Victorville, CA. Ideal Date: Anything that ends in a freshman dorm. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Feed my narcissism. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Disneyland until the fireworks, then Mather. First thing you notice about a girl: Confidence and competence. Your best pick-up line: Hi, I’m Nick Noyer. Best lie you’ve ever told: This is my first time, too. Favorite childhood toy: A mirror. Sexiest physical trait: My metabolism. Favorite part about Harvard: How truly genuine the students...
...Harvard won’t give you anything, you have to take it,” he says. And Ravishankara has taken advantage of a lot Harvard has to offer. He shot movies on 16mm film on Harvard’s dime, earned a secondary field degree in VES, and met friends that truly inspired him. “There is this incredible diversity in people that go here and the opportunities available,” he says. Dern, of recent reality-TV fame, says he and Ravishankara recognized something in each other freshman year. “I thought...
...culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists.” This quote from L. Ron Hubbard has both inspired and been realized by Harvard senior Jimmy Collins ’07, big dreamer, Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrator, and Renaissance man of the arts. Collins is not only an advanced percussionist, but also a talented filmmaker, photographer, and leader. His creative education began at age five when his father, who had always wanted to play the drums, bought him a drum set. “We had a drum...
...Lisa J. Maracchi ’09, the other co-producer of Art Walk, started H-Art after thinking that there were no student groups on campus which focused on the visual arts. “We want to bring people together who aren’t necessarily VES [Visual and Environmental Studies] concentrators and who just love art and want to be around it,” Miracchi says. Art Walk will feature gallery spaces across campus and in residential Houses. Participants can join the tour at any point along the way and come and go as they wish...
...Undergraduate Glibly Dark (UGD), a type of humor in which laughs are punctuated not so much by smiles as vicious slams of your fist in the Adams House dining hall. It will be familiar to that segment of Harvard’s population—Lampoon types, Advocate types, VES concentrators—or “mostly messy-haired people,” as Rich’s former blockmate Nick McDonell ’06 put it in his novel, “The Third People.” The bite of UGD is often soft, which...