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Julia M. Spiro

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Just The Tip

Free things=good things. Go to the crew intro meeting for a free athletic shirt. Go to the Barker Center Café as it’s closing for free coffee. Go to Lamont café for a free massage from your peers (apparently). Go to the laundry room for free condoms. Go to the career fair for free random shit with company logos. Go to the libraries for free pencils. Go to Mather Lather for free soap. Go to any bulletin board for free thumbtacks. Go to Lowell on Thursdays or Sparks House on Wednesdays for free tea. Go online for Freeze magazine. Go to the Democracy Center for freedom. Go to MIT for freaks. And don’t go to Harvard if you want to save money. — Charles R. Melvoin


I Can See Clearly Now

I pulled them on like armor. My metamorphosis had finally arrived. I was no longer the airhead, I was the coveted, feared, admired intellectual.


Drinky Drink

Drunk Jenga Assign various Jenga pieces with tasks such as: chug one beer, take one shot, give a beer, finish


The Best Square Locales For a (Memorable) Drink

Here at Harvard, it is sometimes easier to go to a bar than go to the trouble of sneaking booze


Love It: Prefrosh Weekend

It’s Friday night, 11 p.m., and you’re walking back to your dorm room from Lamont, excited for a quiet and


Love It: Textual Harrassment

Most Sunday mornings, the first thing I do is frantically check my phone and scroll through my history from the


Shuttle? More Like Shittle!

A month ago, one of the Harvard Shuttle buses collided with a biker at 1 a.m. A few weeks later,