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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
How To Self-Care After Your Midterm
As someone who took a midterm, here are some ways that I am practicing self-care that you might be able to take inspiration from.
Picnicking: A Type of Preventative Care
Feeling down due to the season’s changes? Recommended remedy: take advantage of every last bit of warm weather and summer’s last moments to plan a picnic! And read this article to get all the information you need to host the perfect one.
How to: Eat Lunch Quickly
Did you pick your fall schedule to minimize 9 a.m.’s and now don’t have any breaks from 10:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.? Are you sick of scarfing down a bland FlyBy sandwich every day? If so, read on to find tips about how to not starve until dinner!
Bye Bye, Google Calendar
If you or a loved one is suffering from an addiction to Google Calendar, help is out there. If you’re ready to manage your life without an online calendar, we’re here to get you there.
Maximize Your Cute Summer Wardrobe Alignment Chart
Cambridge (for once in forever) is having abnormally nice weather, and you want to make the most of it through your summer wardrobe before it comes time to pull out the cozy fall sweaters and UGG minis. Not sure what to wear? Check out this alignment chart.
Dear Class of 2025: Do’s & Don’ts for Senior Year
With 260 or so days left to go until graduation (I mean who’s counting…), it’s natural to feel both excited and perhaps a bit anxious about what comes next. Never fear, flyby is back with advice to help you navigate your senior year!
How to Keep Your GPA Up While Getting Your Rice Purity Score Low
Remember: it’s possible to have it all, as long as you define “it all” by two arbitrary numerical metrics. Just please, please, never attempt numbers 99 and 100.
Guide to Start of Semester Office Hours
Intimidated by office hours? Don’t worry. Here are a few suggestions to guide you through those first few weeks of getting to know your professors.
How to Bring Brat Summer Into the Fall
With this, we have all the faith you’ll successfully keep Brat summer alive well into the fall. Keep Harvard funky.
How to Say You Don’t Have Summer Plans
If you’re watching summer rapidly approach without any idea of an impressive way you’ll spend it, never fear! Harvard is all about optics, and we can help you figure out how to ~spin~ your minimal plans to make all your friends weep with envy.
How To: Rationalize Not Studying For Your Final
After enduring months of cold, dreary weather, it feels criminal to hole up in Lamont to study for a silly little exam, missing out on all that spring in Boston has to offer. So, do you really need to study for that final? After all, the content on the exam is intuitive…right?
How to Survive the (Next) Eclipse
This year’s eclipse placed my parents squarely within its path of totality, inciting a weekslong obsession with the eclipse and eclipse-related safety precautions. And, like the loving daughter that I am, I tried to listen. So, in case you’re fretting about it too, I’m here to share my generational wisdom on surviving the eclipse.
Flyby’s Crimson Print Cheat Sheet
Do you know how to use Crimson print? No? We thought so! One Flyby writer has generously created a step-by-step so you never have to stand awkwardly in front of a printer, hoping a kind passerby stops to help, again!
How To: Survive Reading Period
To prepare you for reading period, we, at Flyby, have gathered a list that will help you *lock in* and grind out your upcoming exams or final papers, smoothly and effectively.