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From Halloweekend to Healing: Embracing Your Winter Arc
As spooky season comes to a close and with cuffing season around the corner, you’re probably wondering what your next era is going to be. Switch out your bad decisions and doing it for the plot for eating healthy and locking in, because you’re in your winter arc.
Flyby Investigates: Witch Hat Girl
We got an exclusive comment from the Sidechat-viral witch hat maker!
How To Rewear Your Halloween Costume
The great thing about this year’s Halloween season is that the spooky holiday lands in the middle of the week, making it socially acceptable to dress up multiple days throughout the week without getting strange looks. So, whether you are in denial like me or you just want to party it up multiple times, here are some ways you can reduce, reuse, and recycle your costume.
How to Celebrate Halloween In Class
How do you celebrate Halloween Day if you technically should be student-ing? Fear not, Flyby is here to give you ways to celebrate without putting you behind on your color-coded gcal.
Halloweekend: Which Weekend Is It, Really?
It’s spooky season, people, and the long awaited Halloween is on its way. But this year the day falls in the middle of the week, leaving everyone to wonder: Which weekend is Halloweekend?
How to Scare Yourself: Harvard Edition
Harvard life is spooky enough without the costumes. So, this Halloween, embrace the true frights—psets, Canvas grades, and the eternal struggle of surviving the FlyBy lunch line. Stay safe, stay caffeinated, and remember: the only thing scarier than midterms? Your inbox.
The Scariest Places on Campus
The scariest thing about Harvard might just be some of its buildings. To celebrate this, we’re rounding up some of the eeriest places you may have the misfortune to visit while you’re a student here.
Harvard Jumpscares
Harvard can be a spooky place! In honor of spooky season, we’ve compiled a list of Harvard jumpscares that have kept us on our toes all October long.
5 Low-Effort Harvard-Related Halloween Costumes
Halloween is one of the most wonderful times of the year because it’s an opportunity to show off your creativity and ingenuity through a thoughtful and well-crafted costume. Or, if you’re too lazy for that, you can just do one of these low-effort Harvard-themed costumes instead. Please note that if you do do (ha ha, doodoo) one of these costumes, you are legally obligated to tag @flybyblog on all your posts and staple a piece of paper advertising Flyby Blog to your costume.
Flyby Tries: Trick-or-Treating at Random Dorms
I went trick-or-treating this past week. With my Where’s Waldo costume (bracing myself for the “I found you” and “Where are you?” comments), I was ready to embark on this spooky escapade.
A Comprehensive List of House Mascots as Halloween Costumes
Dress up as your House mascot.! But… I get it. Some mascots fit the occasion better than others. Which is why we’ve worked hard to inform all of you which mascots are in and which are (sadly) out.
The Houses as Halloween Candies
If our Houses were to transform into these candies for Halloween, the festive spirit would surely sweep across campus, making the spooky season even more bewitching for everyone. Here’s to hoping for some real candy distribution next year — Happy Halloween, Harvard!
Top 10 Harvard Alumni to Summon in a Seance
If you’re going to do a seance this spooky season — a ritual with candles to try to attract a ghost to speak with you — then you need to know who you’re summoning. Have no fear: Flyby has compiled a top-10 list of ghosts to attract.
Flyby's Halloween Feature!
Harvard's a pretty spoOoky place, and never more so than during Halloween! This week, Flyby is bringing you (skele)TONS of Harvard Halloween content to get you in the festive, frightful spirit. Check it out below!
Making Your Dorm Spooky on a Budget
We’d all love for our dorms to reflect the coming of spooky season, but not all of us have funds to spare for thematically appropriate decor. But there’s no reason to be afraid — or is there? — because Flyby has some spending-free décor inspiration for your dorm.
How To: Scare Your Parents
With Halloweekend x Family Weekend, make the most out of an already terrifying situation by scaring your parents. Those who follow these expert tips are sure to have the spookiest weekend of all time!
Wanted: Distractions for My Middle-Aged Parents
Single daughter of two, living in Cambridge (River East), seeking space to occupy parents for the first two days of Family Weekend. At least 20 years of parent care experience and two references required. UPDATE: Space(s) found; see description for details.
How To: Prepare for your Midterm the Night Before
Feeling the pressure of midterm season creeping up on you? Maybe it’s already here, and you still have more midterms? Get advice on how to prep the night before, from texting students for "advice" to realizing it might be too late. It's the procrastinator’s guide to ensuring you’re ready for that exam.
Ranking Items From Head of the Charles
I love to try new things, especially for free, and if you didn’t know, the Head of the Charles is the perfect place to do that. Here’s a ranking of the items I received for attending.
A Day in the Life of a Perfect Harvard Student
This Flyby writer shares a day in the life of the perfect Harvard student as a reminder that perfect people do exist, and they deserve to be seen and heard!
A Sweet Treat for Every Mood
No matter the occasion, you always deserve a sweet treat. Here’s a little guide to finding a sweet treat for every mood, from yours truly.
LEAK: Inside the School-Sponsored H-Y Tailgate
Dean of Students Thomas Dunne said a few days ago that we would have a Harvard-Yale tailgate “that is attractive to students and fun and feels like what they imagined Harvard-Yale to be, but it’s also safe.” Well, Flyby Blog has the scoop and he’s right! Here’s a look inside what this attractive tailgate will be like.
Head of the Charles is Like a Zombie Apocalypse
This weekend, 200,000 people will descend upon the Charles River to watch a bunch of high schoolers, college students, and professionals row row row their boats. Here’s how to get ready for the zombie apocalypse: a.k.a. Head of the Charles.
How To: Get Humbled at Harvard
One can experience the highest of highs and the lowest of lows all in the same day at this prestigious university, so we decided to create a guide to get the most bang for your buck, and maximize your ego deflation. Without further ado, here’s six things you can do to get thoroughly humbled at Harvard.
Flyby Tries: A Week of No Spend
I tried not to spend money for a week. That’s it. That’s the article.