Neuropsychological and Social Effects of Air Pollution
By Diego de Juan (’23) Humanity’s rapid industrialization and rampant use of combustible fuels has led to widely documented changes in the atmosphere of the...
What Shaped My Belief
By Doris Padron-Murga (’25) I looked down at the cold, hard ground and spent a long time staring at my grandmother’s headstone. The gloomy raindrops...
Suspension
By Virginia Richard (’24) It was three days until finals. Our school had been overcrowded for years. The only high school in Framingham, MA depended...
Too Perfect Grave
By Sydney Bailen (’24) My knees sunk into the dirt, staining and ripping my black tights. I barely felt the little pebbles digging into my...
Personal Choice versus Public Health: Where do Vaccines Fall?
By Ryan Olson (’24) For many of those who had children before 2010, the decision of whether to vaccinate those children was simple. Now, it...
Waiting Room
By Michelle Cook (Faculty) They usually enter this space in pairs, sometimes in a group, rarely alone. They take a seat and wait until their...
The Book
By Alfred Persson (LLARC) I was showing out of town visitors the yard at Harvard. We entered the quadrangle and spotted the bronze statue of...
The Door
By Alfred Persson (LLARC) He lay silently in bed. The family was divided; should he be admitted to the hospital or stay at home and...
Was it Worth it?
By Brett Kiesel (’23) I recount my Dad reading me Roald Dahl’s Danny, The Champion of the World. It was a David versus Goliath story,...
Shiksa
By Virginia Slep (’64 and LLARC) Chanukkah is almost here. Time to get out my old strings of Christmas tree lights — the ones with...
SpongeBob SquarePants: A Capitalist Conspiracy
By Jacob Pardo (’23) Since its debut in 1999, Stephen Hillenburg’s SpongeBob SquarePants has been a cornerstone of popular culture and a source of many...
Optimism
By Lilly Wehmeyer (’25) My father’s long fingers stretch to steadily louden the radio voices of WBUR morning news. This is routine; the daily commute...
