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Thomas J. Wright ’06 is a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House. He is one of five student members of the 19-person University Committee on Calendar Reform...
Sketchiest moment at Harvard: BONDing in a certain Winthrop stairwell
...week before spring break, as many people were cramming for midterms, 15 students gathered in a small room in Winthrop House to discuss the challenges faced by religious students at Harvard. The as-yet unnamed group was started by Moshe Shai Davis ’06 in response to the lack of a student discourse on religion. “I found that dealing with my own personal questions of spirituality and faith, I had few places to turn for honest, thoughtful discussion,” he explains. “I decided that there must be many others...
...these students was Carrie, a junior in Winthrop House. Carrie felt the application—which asked vague questions such as “Why do you want to participate on an ASB trip?” and “Do you have experience with tools?”—was “fairly random.” The 10-minute interviews trip leaders conducted with applicants, moreover, left Carrie asking her own questions. “How do you determine from an application who is better at doing community service,” she writes...
Sketchiest moment at Harvard: BONDing in a certain Winthrop stairwell