Since the Covid-19 era, we’ve gone from grab-and-go meals to moshing at Yardfest, from pinning each others’ boxes on Zoom to seeing the lower half of our peers’ bodies, and from living across dozens of time zones to residing in a single dozen of Houses. Students - Not Administrators - In Charge But over the past year, we have made strides worth celebrating to improve our campus. It would be a cliche - and plain wrong - to say that we chose to fundamentally transform Harvard’s culture that, because of us, post-pandemic Harvard no longer reeks of elitism or institutional failure. Or we could have actively rethought what Harvard should look like, and taken intentional steps towards defining a better normal. We could have fallen into new routines without questioning their origins. We could have found comfort in an inheritance of old habits. In this absurd yet joyous new normal, options branched out before us. The pandemic’s blip on this record has torn us away from institutional inertia - leaving the trajectory of our campus unusually and delightfully unbounded. Harvard is a university drenched in history, influenced by a chain of traditions, norms, and practices stretching back centuries. This new beginning, like any, comes with near-limitless potential. ![]() Sometimes, unable to rebuild from blueprints we can no longer access, we’ve had to build anew. We’ve been attempting to figure out what Harvard’s campus should look like, without any reference point. Only the current graduating class has even witnessed the pre-pandemic era. This is only the second year of a full in-person campus, and the first entirely without Covid restrictions. Yet our past four years have been wracked by discontinuity. Our campus is not stagnant: Each year, as new freshmen cycle in and tutors swap Houses, its culture is molded by a slightly different set of hands.įor us undergraduates, Harvard is home for just four disarming, uninhibited, formative years. It’s a campus, where students, teachers, and administrators come together in community. Harvard is not merely a collection of red-brick buildings. Rebuilding, From the Same Red-Brick Buildings ![]() Rather than disregarding the last few years and picking up exactly where we left off in 2020, we must acknowledge the cavity that Covid-19 left us in, to fully appreciate our current flourishing. Covid-19 cases still occur today, and we are all grappling with the pandemic’s aftereffects. And forget we have: These same pages no longer know of a pandemic.įorgetting, though, does not beget learning - veritas doesn’t emerge from the void. Now, pandemic restrictions lifted, we have the blissful freedom to forget. This was the year we were finally done talking about Covid-19.įor the past three years, the pandemic dominated our lives, and, in turn, it dominated these pages.
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