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When Eva Z. Lam ’10 arrived at Harvard, she was amazed not by the beautiful architecture or brilliant students, but by her bathroom in Thayer. Coming from an underfunded public high school in Milwaukee where toilet paper was scarce, Lam was awestruck by Harvard’s never-ending supply of TP. “I got here and was like, this is incredible!” she jokes...
Coming to Harvard, brilliant scholars, star athletes, talented virtuosos, and innovative humanitarians aren’t necessarily a rare find. Yet between freshman move-in and spring Commencement, certain students manage to become campus icons. FM presents our annual list of Harvard’s 15 most interesting seniors, profiled below...
Fastidious, creative, and brilliant: these are the three words that Winston X. Yan’s close friend and business partner Alexander G. Bick ’10 would use to describe the Adams resident. As a member of the Varsity Sailing Team, a co-founder of the start-up Rover, and a researcher at a lab attempting to create smaller and less expensive MRI machines, this physics major certainly seems to live up to such descriptions...
Even with his accomplishments and his future prospects, Yan is humble about his talents. “To be honest, I’m not brilliant. I’m not that genius physics person that can just sit around and know everything,” he says. Maybe so, but that sure hasn’t stopped him before...
...might have asked the public to pay a tax to support the war, as Congressman David Obey has suggested. Or he might have listed some charities that people could contribute to - Greg Mortenson's brilliant effort to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan comes to mind - or he might have asked Americans to send clothing, or seeds, to the second poorest country in the world. This is a message, a resolute and passionate evocation of national purpose, that the Taliban need to hear as well...