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Dine Out With Rialto!By May 17, 2013 - 4:19pm After a winter full of cold weather, snow storms, and finding the closest indoor meal you can, patio season has finally arrived! There are tons of amazing locations in the city, but there are also some nice - and affordable! - restaurants right in Harvard Square. READ MORE |
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Tangible Things: Why (Physical) Books MatterBy May 3, 2013 - 12:00pm The three best gifts I’ve been given are, in order, a book, a typewriter, and a book. The typewriter should probably tip you off that I’m biased toward the archaic. We’re not talking about one of those nifty portable electrics here; Gerry (that’s his name) is old enough to be my grandfather and just as loud as any deaf old man trying to hear his own voice. There’s something grounding about typing a letter mechanically—it could be the necessity of focusing on each letter, or the constant background of rhythmic clacking, like a Gregorian chant performed by steel monks. Using a typewriter is a substantially different writing experience than using my laptop. But I digress. This isn’t about my typewriter. It’s about those other two favorite gifts, my books.... |
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Ask Elle: Reading Period PanicBy April 25, 2013 - 1:44am HC Harvard's very own wise and worldly collegiette advice columnist is here to answer any and all of your pressing questions about life in and out of the Harvard bubble! If you've got a question you would like to see answered, Ask Elle here! Dear Elle, Reading period is coming. I’m terrified. Every semester I say things will be different, and every semester I end up drowning in work. How do I stay on top of my life and keep from going insane?! HCXO, Frantic Hey Frantic, READ MORE |
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Finding Space in the BubbleBy April 18, 2013 - 1:53pm Now I’m not saying Boston’s a big city (relax, New Yorkers, we’re cool), but there’s definitely quite a bit of space available to run away to. Even Cambridge has about a thousand nooks and crannies that not even super-super seniors have wandered into. How is it that we feel stifled by the “Harvard Bubble”, then? It’s definitely there, and we definitely feel like we’re getting smothered by a crimson throw pillow when we haven’t left Mass Ave in three weeks. The problem isn’t that we can’t find space—to me, it seems like it’s there in spades. What I don’t understand is why it feels so life-changing to take an easy thirty-minute walk down the river or a ten-minute T ride to Kendall. What is it about being here that makes us so antsy?... |
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Ask Elle Reads Harvard FML: The FriendzoneBy April 10, 2013 - 12:00pm That’s right, collegiettes, Elle stalks Harvard FML with the best of them, and even adds her two cents. "I have so many things going wrong in life but all I really care about is unrequited love. Why won't he love me? Blockzoned. FML." Oof. Friendzoning is the worst. As far as I know, the term was first used to describe a circle of hell in Dante’s Inferno. (Is it the one where everything’s covered in ice or is that just winter in Cambridge?) The good news is that you can get through it! The bad news is that it will probably suck at first. Here are a few things to remember that might help you out: 1. It isn’t anyone’s fault. READ MORE |
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Lessons We Learned from "When Harry Met Sally"By April 3, 2013 - 12:00pm “Men and women cannot be friends,” a matter-of-fact Harry says to his blonde counterpart as she stares dumbfounded in the driver’s seat of her beloved college car. Meg Ryan, the loveable, naïve lead in this classic rom-com cannot comprehend why a male and a female cannot be friends without “sex getting in the way” as Harry so artistically puts it. Whether you agree with this skepticism or not, this underappreciated film has many life lessons that we would be smart to adhere to (or run from). Her Campus is here to break it down for you. How to fake it. READ MORE |
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Ask ElleBy March 28, 2013 - 12:00pm HC Harvard's very own wise and worldly collegiette advice columnist is here to answer any and all of your pressing questions about life in and out of the Harvard bubble! If you've got a question you would like to see answered, Ask Elle here! READ MORE |
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Make Yourself at HomeBy March 14, 2013 - 12:00pm Dear Freshmen, Rise and shine; your housing fate awaits you. Do you hear the upperclassmen banging down your door, or the blaring vuvuzelas in the yard or your sobbing blockmate, who tells you between sniffles, that you just got Cabot? Can’t you feel the blood in your veins turns cold as you realize you have been QUADDED? And then you wake up from this nightmare. You open the door and you accept the letter that says you’re in Lowell and then you live happily ever after; except for Sundays, when the bells relieve you from your sleep but not your hangover. But what if this isn’t you? What if you actually get Quadded or worse, one of the silent killers—the carbon monoxide and high blood pressure of Harvard housing—Mather or... |
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Spare Some Change, Admissions?By March 5, 2013 - 12:40pm Dear Harvard Admissions Board, I know that your job must be overwhelming—you have approximately thirty-thousand hearts to break every spring and so little time to do it. I can’t even imagine the feeling of wading through piles of overachievers’ application essays trying to separate the wheat from … Well, from the rest of the wheat. I hope that putting the process online has significantly reduced the number of paper cuts you must get every March. READ MORE |
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The Craziest Thing I Did to Save MoneyBy February 27, 2013 - 10:56am Have you heard? Saving money is cool again—just ask Macklemore. I mean, some of my favorite adventures have happened because I wanted to save two bucks on T fare. I’ll end up in Boston somewhere, sometimes on an impromptu walk down the river or a people-watching trip to Long Wharf . . . Then, of course, I’ll get restless and want to be somewhere else. I could hop on the T and take a short subway ride across town, or I could just walk there, and since a couple short T rides can add up pretty quickly I usually just tighten my laces and march on. READ MORE |
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