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...zero sexual partners, and only 28 percent had even one dating partner. Add these statistics to the blogs, studies, and numerous recent articles about how Harvard students can’t get any, and you can’t help but feel bad about your sex life. Harvardfml and d-hall gossip don’t help either...
Though most of us are probably more likely to check out HarvardFML than Harvard’s homepage, the University’s Web site is a pretty hot link, according to one recently released set of rankings. In fact, the Web site 4 International Colleges and Universities lists Harvard’s as the third most-visited college or university Web site in the world...
Posts about Annenberg, CS50, Wig-A girl, and the k-pop loving Turk are all relevant, and a testament to the community Harvardfml has slowly been shaped by, but the necessity of anonymity characterizes our campus tremendously. This is not to say Harvardfml is a precise methodological tool by which to evaluate campus life, but its explosive popularity cannot be ignored. The blog is confessional. “I only got in because my dad’s a donor. FML.” “I lost my virginity in the Delphic basement...
Indeed, though much of the press about Harvardfml has been negative, pointing to its posts as evidence of privileged Harvard students’ self-centered or isolationist tendencies, the blog offers evidence of a shared experience students go through together. The fact that there are reoccurring characters in the posts, that there are statements made that go unchallenged, and that the blog itself reflects what is being talked about on campus are all evidence of cohesion. Anyone who has visited the site more than once will have learned that CS50 is hard, but that there is an attractive...
This is why the body of distress and anxiety that is HarvardFML cannot simply be dismissed as irrelevant—every community has its own normal state, around which good and bad become dependent on the shared conditions, and websites like HarvardFML reveal the status quo. “I am a closeted gay man in a final club. FML,” reads one post, expressing a sentiment that betrays the particular heteronormativity and final club atmosphere at Harvard that those outside our community might not have have experienced. The distress expressed is not negated simply because the writer...