Diligent sophomore: Let’s say you’re the most disciplined person in the world and other people aren’t.
Overheard in precept
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Pantoum, (pantoum) pantoum.
Yes to the catchup, I saw your text, I’m just not sure about which day I’m free yet, but I’ll reply soon No, of course. No worries. Looking forward! But I’m just not sure about which day My hands will not be cold when I touch Warm palms of nice people who look past …
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Howling in this Moment
after “Howl” (1956) by Allen Ginsburg I saw the best minds of my generation locked-in scribbling syllables at desks in the basement C floor of Firestone library covered in a lifetime’s layer of dust, who skipped last month’s Labyrinth poetry readings by Komunyakaa & Hayes to puzzle over problem sets & so missed the…
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Wait For Me: Full Design
You’re leaving? No. No. Hang on, hang out. Light is cascading through the windows, and the Nass staying around.
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Letter From the Editors
Dominant institutions of power have co-opted “culture,” fragmenting it in the process; universities are censored, while mainstream publications ignore the needs and concerns of younger generations, increasingly reflecting outdated sentiments. We’re aware that meditating on “culture,” rather than subsistence, is a sign of privilege; but the line between culture and politics is thin, and conforming…
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We Belong to No One But Ourselves
Members of the Harvard Independent’s Editorial Board reflect on counterculture.
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Treatise on Believing in Yourself from Elizabeth Holmes
To diagnose someone means they’re already sick. We need more time, I tell my investors––Kissinger and the other men. It can only happen in blood. I don’t give stories or specificities. Silicon Valley means you create the outline and let them fill you in. All I do is put on a low voice, Steve Jobs…
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Nass Recommends: Guy Trebay’s Do Something
Trebay’s memoir of growing up in New York City presents a poignant picture of a time when artists could actually afford rent.
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Modern Love
“We went a year without sleeping with one another. The act of speaking was already intimate enough.”
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Call of Duty: VR Training with the Princeton Police
Patrol Officer Andre Lee sees a suicidal woman staring off the edge of a building with a bright desert-like landscape behind her; he hears the woman’s melancholic voice and the sound of whipping wind. I see Officer Lee standing alert in the middle of the Princeton Police Department (PPD) training facility, the cloudy mid-morning February…