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Apply for The Voice Executive Board 2009-2010

Posted by on December 16, 2009 at 5:19 pm

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To all Harvard undergraduates:

The Voice is now accepting applications* for open positions on our Executive Board 2009-2010. Application is open to the entire Harvard  undergraduate community, but elected members have first priority in deliberations. Please consider applying and joining a great group of people, working for a fun publication, and having an overall rewarding experience!

Click here to download an application. The deadline to submit the application is Sunday, January 23rd by 11:59PM to thehvoicemail@gmail.com.

Positions open for application include:

EDITORIAL
Lifestyle Director
The Dish Director
Associate Web Director
Associate Director of Photography
Copy Editor

BUSINESS
Director of Publicity and Marketing
Art Director
IT Director
Creative Executive

*Please note that this is not an application to Comp The Voice. The Spring 2010 Comp will commence after J-term and more information on the Spring Comp will be given at a later time. Successful election to the Executive Board exempts one from the Spring Comp.

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Harvard Haiku: Exam Edition

Posted by on December 16, 2009 at 3:17 pm

This week, adding to our online anthology, some poems on the bitterness of a transient existence. Just remember that first of Four Noble Truths? “Life is suffering.”

Know why I am screwed?
900 pages to read.
Ugh, English Major.

Know why I’m not screwed?
I was done a week ago.
Yay for VES.

Procrastinating,
By writing haiku poems:
A dumb idea.

Fetal position.
I will take my exam in
Fetal position.

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Congratulations Fall 2009 Compers!

Posted by on December 15, 2009 at 10:08 pm

Congratulations and welcome to the newly elected members of The Voice.

EDITORIAL BOARD
Suzanna Bobadilla ’13 - Staff Writer, Web Editor
Bonnie Cao ’12 – Web Editor
Kathleen French ’13 – Staff Writer, Web Editor
Ricardo Garcia-Rojas ’13 – Staff Writer
Philip Gingerich ’13 – Staff Writer
Dustin Poore ’12 – Staff Writer, Web Editor
Graham Simpson ’13 – Staff Writer, Web Editor


PHOTO BOARD

Associate Photographers:
Sasha Mironov ’13
Grace Sun ’13
Alex Savona ’12

Interested in joining The Voice? Details on the Spring 2010 Comp are coming soon. Email thehvoicemail@gmail.com with any questions. We love you.

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Noice Playlist of the Week #8: I Saw You… Harvard

Posted by on December 14, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Harvard? More like StalkVard. Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck!
This week’s playlist brings you a bunch of old and new classics on the stalkery/lovestruck theme of our newest favorite Harvard Internet 2.0 meme: ISawYouHarvard.com. Also, who knew that Sting was such a creepster?



Get the full list of songs here

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December Makeover Contest: Results!

Posted by on December 13, 2009 at 10:21 pm

by Liyun Jin ’12
December 2009 Issue

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Our lucky makeover winner is all smiles!

At the kickoff of Reading Period and winter formal season, few things are as refreshing and motivating than a thorough pampering session. Fresh snow on the ground beckons for a fresh look for ourselves, but as college students, money and time aren’t exactly working in our favor to renew our bodies and spirits.

That’s where our December Makeover Contest, promising a free full makeover at Carriage House Salon in Harvard Square, fit in. Nominations poured in for cosmetically clueless pals and gorgeous gals hidden behind sweatshirts and thick glasses, but none melted our hearts as much as Nora Ali’s earnest plea on behalf of her friend Elaine Chen ’11. We had to help this girl out. Read all about the transformation after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »

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Exam Nirvana: A Reading Period Start-Up Pack

Posted by on December 12, 2009 at 12:56 am

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by Henry Woodward-Fisher ’12
December 2009 Issue

So, it’s Fall Exam Period 2009, freezing outside, you forgot to wear your sneakers and you’re now nursing Primal Scream induced frostbite and grazed knees. How will you get through the next week or so when Reading Period was such a disaster? You’re feeling especially out of shape after running around Harvard Yard in your birthday suit and you’ve still got a lot of BoardPlus and Crimson Cash to use up before the start of the holidays. What the hell is the blood-brain barrier anyhow? How on earth are you ever going to get through this new calendar?

ON PROCRASTINATION:

Picture 29White Noise Generator
– Just click on www.simplynoise.com to get the Internet’s purest and highest quality white noise (y’know the sound that TV makes when it’s not on a channel), it apparently aids sleep and helps block out other distractions.

LeechBlock – Go here for a Firefox extension that blocks websites (like Facebook, I Saw You Harvard, Twitter, etc.) that you might be tempted to visit repeatedly as you study.

MeeTimer – This Firefox add-on logs how much time you have spent on each site that you visit. It can give you pop-up reminders if you are spending too much time on procrastination web sites.

Things to avoid: Never, repeat, never go to meatspin.org or hippohippo.ytmnd.com – such things will only lead to unhappiness and awkward looks from others.

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How to Reacclimate to a Non-Harvard Environment

Posted by on December 11, 2009 at 9:07 pm

mumby Ingrid Pierre ‘12
December 2009 Issue

Dear Undergrads,

If you thought four days of Thanksgiving break were hard, try this newly extended break on for size. J-Term? More like “J-Terminate me, now”! Some of you may wonder, what’s so bad about several weeks of continuous break with family-members-who-love-you-dearly-and-haven’t-seen-you-in-months-and-want-to-catch-up-really-badly-but-not-before-you-show-them-how-to-work-skype-so-you-can-call-grandma-and-then-fix-the-TV-that’s-been-broken-since-you-left-because-no-one-else-knows-how-to-do-it? (Yeah…) Perhaps that’s assuming a great deal about your home life. But that’s just the thing; you do have a home life and a Harvard life. And if you’re an ordinary person, you should know that there’s a clear distinction between the two.

So for those of you who may not know what you’re in for this break, we’ve come up with a little advice on how to ease back into Kansas, Dorothy.

Social Etiquette:

  • If someone asks you about school, just smile and say it’s all good. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT mention how horrible CS50 was or bring up any readings and assignments in conversation. No one cares. We mean it. Also, tone down the big words and use of obscure eponymous adjectives. While you may fling around a “panegyric”, “heteronormative”, or “Aeschylean” on the daily here, everyone else will think you’re a tool.
  • Don’t wear your COOP approved Harvard gear in public. Keep a low profile, and don’t rub it in people’s faces that you go here, besides any schmoe can get a Harvard shirt. I mean your cousins probably wear theirs all the time (for the ladies, of course). Read the rest of this entry »

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International Testimonials

"Jealous Ivy League students"
--The Daily Telegraph

"Harvard jerks"
--Neel Shah, Page Six, NY Post

"Controversial"
--Access Hollywood

"A big deal"
--NY Daily News

"Rival"
--Starpulse

"Harvard kids"
--Extra! TV

"Pathetic"
--Just Jared Jr.

"Scheming...totally out of line"
--Teen Vogue

"Gems...eagle-eyed"
--Dlisted

"Harvard geeks"
--LA Times

"Those people are assholes"
--Fark.com

"Good reason to be, well, crimson"
--People Magazine

"Nerd terror squad"
--Cityfile

"Nouveau riche scum"
--NowPublic

"Like, super brainy kids"
--Anything Hollywood

"Silly mountain to molehill"
--Gryffindor Gazette

"Wicked publication"
--The HarvardCrimson

"Zeitungsmacher"
--Die Presse


OTHER MENTIONS: Huffington Post, New York Magazine

The Voice Staff

Co-Presidents, Editors-in-Chief
- Michelle Nguyen ’13
- April Sperry ’13
Senior Editor for Content
- Lauren Feldman ’13
Director of Photography
- Heidi Lim ’14
Directors of Business
- Pratyusha Yalamanchi ’13
- Connie Lin ’14
Director of Marketing and Publicity
- Michael Shayan ’14
Web Director
- Julian Gari ’13
Director of Design
- Preston So ’14