Culture, Without A House An experiential intrusion into forgotten lives at Harvard By ANA LUIZA NICOLE Harvard’s campus gets swallowed into oblivion at its very epicenter: Harvard Square. Students, visitors, and residents alike eschew its central trigon with careful steps. They trudge about it with syllabus-leaden feet from Yard to Coop. They make erratic late-night […]
Knock or not? A case in negotiating with Professors By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE You expected it all. The sweating, the shaking, perhaps even the urge to flee. This is a high-pressure situation. And any way you trip up may have distorting consequences on that A-clad image of your transcript come May. Welcome […]
Walled off or Just another brink in the Wall By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE The eye is changed. Horror isn’t in stories and movies anymore, it’s in the walls. But how does one escape the careless whisper of the brick, the plaster, and all those tangled wires? Escape you say? But escape is impossible […]
A True Crimson Madness: Panem et Circenses for Students By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE It’s 7:00 pm on a Friday night, and Lavietes pavilion shines like a beacon of hope signaling the end of the week. It is now time to come back to life. After a tidal wave of midterms has swept […]
An Interview With Professor Harvey Mansfield By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE Professor Harvey Mansfield has spent much of his adult life at Harvard. The Independent had the opportunity to share time with the “last conservative Professor on campus” and hear about what it’s like to have been at Harvard for 70 years, with a hiatus of […]
Everywhere and All the Time By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE Past the Harvard Business School and Harvard Athletic Facilities, a quick stroll across the Charles River to Allston, MA leads the way to the Harvard Innovation Labs, comprising of the ArtLab, the LaunchLab X, and the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab. These buildings are neighboring to the […]
Solace lost By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE Singing in the rain, walking on sunshine, crying rivers… A lot seems to come out of representations of our mood through natural allegories and imagery. In the past decades, studies have correlated our good moods and increased stamina to some extent with pleasant weather: goomy skies covering expected […]
Shining Through Identities Student-led fashion production brings diversity to the stage of today’s social discourse By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE This past Sunday, March 31st, 62 Harvard undergraduates strolled in front of friends and fans sporting world-renowned brands and designers such as Off White by Virgil Abloh, Monique Lhuillier, Zac Posen, Prabal Gurung, Tony Ward, and […]
Onwards and Forwards A Poem By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE Up and down and up and down It goes all round Comes and goes Through joy and woes Its spinning never stops On Earth so far the sky above The rift just flown over by doves Like the cycle of the crops […]
By Ana Luiza Nicolae On Thursday, September 27 and Monday, November 19 at 3pm, President Bacow held office hours to give students a chance to meet him. However, these opportunities to get to know our new president, unfortunately, were not taken advantage of by most students. And while this may have been because the announcement […]