Sex and the Ivy

At the annual Harvard-Yale football game with my favorite Yalie and Hamlet, who had quite the weekend as one of only two bulldogs at the Yale Bowl. (I assume official mascot Handsome Dan was present, but I didn’t spot any other English bulldogs. ...

Hamlet and I in downtown New Haven. Though I managed to see a few people at the tailgate, I have to admit that I spent the majority of my weekend with Yalies and my bulldog. (Not my fault though — most of my friends weren’t around the night before the Game.) Am I traitor to my school? En...

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As The Crimson reported today, “conservative feminist” Christina Hoff Sommers gave a talk on the failures of modern feminism last night. I ...

The title of Kennedy’s paper: “Remember that time when I was supposed to write my Folk & Myth paper but didn’t get around to start it until the morning it was due?” To be fair, the title actually has something to do with the topic — “the community building function of anecdotes that begin with ...

I have zero Harvard gear for this weekend. I only ever purchased logoed items during prefrosh weekend and freshman year...

Professor Henry Louis Gates just asked me if I was on Facebook. I informed him it was Twitter. (A dispatch from the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series. Today is the second of three lectures with postcolonial feminist Gayatri Spivak.)

From Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to Christina Hoff Sommers, it’s a big week for feminism (and anti-feminism) at Harvard. ...

I’m a terrible dog mother for doing things like this to Hamlet. (Bunny ears are courtesy of Energizer, which gave them out at the Chicago Marathon last month.)

There are two great events happening on campus today, but unfortunately, they coincide with each other. I’m speaking at the interracial dating panel, so I’d love to hear in the comments from anyone who attends the other event on the Stupak Amendment. A ...

If Harvard marketed itself like ITT Tech and the University of Phoenix, this hilarious commercial would be the result. Produced by the team behind Back of the Class — thanks for the link, guys!

Every semester, each of Harvard’s twelve houses holds a student-faculty dinner. The dining halls get gussied up with tablecloths, flowers, nice dishware, and significantly better food. ...

No Pain, No Gain: The IUD Insertion Process: I finally found myself face-to-face with a foot-long box containing my IUD. Thankfully, the size was misleading. The IUD is actually just 1.5 inches long...

Remember how I decided to take intensive first-year German? Yeahhhh … that actually happened. It’s been two and a half months since the beginning of school. Here’s an update on my progress. I used to be the type of student who planned my schedules so that I’d always have Fridays off. One se...