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...Hers was a red-tailed snake named Luna. We stroked it. We were ready for anything. It was our last Saturday night as college students, and we had chosen to spend it at a peculiar ritual, the midnight meeting of cinema and fishnet stockings and social castoffs that is known as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” But first we needed our tickets, and answer if Luna the snake could...
...point is, while we are stuck in the Harvard bubble, it is easy to become so wrapped up in personal goals that we forget to smell the proverbial roses, or read overhead signs carved in stone. A competitive bunch by definition, Harvard students spend much of their time involved in rivalries with their peers over social status (joining a final club or standing adamantly opposed to them), over academic achievement, over recruiting for that summer internship at JP Morgan, or over leadership positions in student organizations...
...Students in ROTC have to wake up at six in the morning for Physical Training. They cross-register for an extra class at MIT which, UC legislation aside, still doesn’t show up on their transcripts. Many spend their summers away simulating missions and training rather than “swanking it up” in a New York City sublet. Some of these extraordinarily dedicated young people are my friends, and I’m privileged to know them. But because of the culture Harvard has fashioned through its ban of the ROTC, these students?...
...flood the streets with revelers, or have themed dinners on opening day at Fenway, or even blow a good amount of our House social budget on an event I wouldn’t be caught dead at. But the line needs be drawn somewhere: senior spring, a time to spend time with your friends and cherish your last moments at Harvard. In keeping with that theme, a group of friends decided that a trip to see the Red Sox and Royals was in order last month. Kansas City isn’t the most exciting team to watch, and several...
...laugh. Soon after, they met in person. Within weeks, they were dating. The relationship has gone “uninterrupted” since then, according to Ali. Marriage began to seem like a good idea: “We like having one person to come back to, and we spend way too much time together,” Ali said. McNeer, who now lives and works in Connecticut, proposed earlier this year. Ali is beginning an M.D./Ph.D. program at Yale next year, and they plan to live together soon. She described their four years together...