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Heads Up: No Silver Line August 25-29th

Posted by The Voice Staff on August 25, 2010 at 7:55 pm

Well, this is just great timing. Everyone arriving at Terminal B at Logan Airport in the next few days should be aware that there will be no Silver Line service running from that terminal. Instead, “Massport shuttles” will run, and those might take forever.

Here are full details on the diversion, which may take a while.

Your best bet will be to probably find another Harvard student at the airport* and split a cab with him or her.

*How to recognize a Harvard student: Young, exudes air of entitlement, probably carrying book. Okay, KIDDING.

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Oh No They Didn’t: No More Free Adobe Products for Students

Posted by The Voice Staff on August 6, 2010 at 7:45 am

It was announced last Thursday that keyed Adobe products are no longer available on the FAS Software Downloads website. This means no more free Photoshop, Illustrator, or Dreamweaver for students. This means students will have to resort to using Harvard’s computers to access this software for free. This means students will have to resort to looking at fugly ass posters. This mean students will have to resort to pirating the eff out of everything.

Rumors have made the rounds that Adobe simply asked for way too much money ($5mill) in licensing their products to Harvard. And with Harvard’s budget in the craphole, Harvard was like, “LOL THAT’S RILL  FUNNY, FORGET IT.”

Let’s pour out some liquor for the aesthetically pleasing posters, programs, websites, etc. that will never make it into this world. Or our campus. Whatever.


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Summer Meta Interlude: Voice Blog Post About Voice Bloggers’ Blogs

Posted by The Voice Staff on August 1, 2010 at 3:43 pm

At The Voice, we love to blog. A lot. So it’s no surprise that we found many within our ranks have been keeping blogs this summer to document their travels (or non-travels). So if you’re curious as to what we’re all up to and why this particular blog has been quiet as of late — it’s because we’ve been blogging elsewhere!

Here is a handy directory of  which Voice member is blogging where, and about what.

Kathleen French ‘13
Everyone Is Drunk – “General musings on the world’s often unintentional hilarity.”

April Sperry ‘13
The Rainy Season – April’s summer in Italy

Suzanna Bobadilla ‘13
Nearly Fluent – A blog about Suzanna’s time in Uruguay researching the Plan Ceibal, a program that has given a laptop to every elementary school study, along with following the World Cup…of course.

Shadai Graham ‘13
La Dolce Vita – Shadai’s summer in Italia

Ingrid Pierre ‘12
The Worst of YouTube – Documenting the…worst of YouTube.
If This Book Was A Sentence – You can submit your own refreshingly brief summaries of books!

Abby Sun ‘13
Relax-Play – Begun in early 2009, a blog with Abby’s (amazing) photography and other miscellaneous projects.

Michelle Nguyen ‘13
My Petite Life – a personal blog

Alisha Ramos ‘12
Alishalisha.net – A collection of interesting bits and bobs, powered by Tumblr.
Bows & Ivy – Personal blog, recent entries about her time in London

Do you keep a summer blog, or a personal blog? Let us know in the comments!

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Summer Interlude: The Best Non-Harvard FML Yet

Posted by The Voice Staff on July 7, 2010 at 3:01 pm

We get a lot of crazy people submitting to Harvard FML. Mostly high school students. Who are extremely confused about the fact that Harvard FML is indeed, only for Harvard students.

And then sometimes we get this:

Yeah, so anyway.

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Reader Submission: A Finals Haiku

Posted by The Voice Staff on May 9, 2010 at 11:25 pm

From Noice reader “Anon Ymous”:

Title: How my blockmates study.

A: Study is not fun
My attention it does lack
My wish is to sleep

Later…

A:So silly finals
I do not like them one bit
Just give us all As.

Yet later…

A:To my Professors
You are so dear to my heart
Let’s not have exams.

C: I cannot read this.
Where’s my attention span gone?
Time to check email.

A:Finals period:
Full of pain and misery
Please make it be done.

Later…

A: Let’s forget exams,
And I’ll give you my haikus
Won’t that count instead?

C: I’m afraid it won’t.
As much as we may daydream,
We must take exams.

We appreciate reader submissions. Submit your thoughts, haikus, whatever to thehvoicemail@gmail.com. GODSPEED WITH FINALS.

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Everyone Is Doing It

Posted by The Voice Staff on May 6, 2010 at 7:43 pm

Did you know that… even universities have Facebook fan pages? Uh, yeah. Does anyone else feel a little weird about this?

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Reading Period Distraction: Questionable Videos of the Day

Posted by The Voice Staff on May 6, 2010 at 1:37 pm

#1: Miley Cyrus’s new music video. Homegirl needs to chill and quit trying to be like Rihanna/GaGa/Britney and stick with making music vids in sparkly tunics and leggings. YOU ARE FIFTEEN YEARS OLD*, for Godssake.

*We actually don’t know how old she is, nor do we care.

#2: Tyra Banks pretends she’s rabid. Yeah, exactly what you think it is.

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Eliot House Honors House Masters, Says Goodbye To All That

Posted by The Voice Staff on May 2, 2010 at 5:53 pm

Eliot House held a special outdoor celebratory barbecue fest in honor of Anna and Lino, the outgoing House Masters. Eliotites donned t-shirts in honor of the rockstar House Masters while enjoying food and watching performances by student bands and musicians.

Here is a video of the Eliot House tutors performing a rap in honor of Lino and Anna.

Is the departure of Lino and Anna the end of an Eliot era? Probably. Will the new House Masters live up to their names? Probably not.

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The Untitled Project: Calla Videt ‘09

Posted by The Voice Staff on April 30, 2010 at 11:20 am

by Lexi Ross ‘13

Want to see an innovative, non-convential theater piece created by a recent grad? Then check out The Untitled Project, conceived by Calla Videt ’09 and playing at various locations around Harvard square.

Calla Videt was born in New York City but spent most of her formative years in Singapore and Europe, where she gained a fascination for non-conventional ways of creating theater.

Calla, who graduated last spring with a special concentration in theater and physics, was heavily involved in both performing and directing during her time at Harvard. Her senior thesis consisted of a show which she wrote and directed on the Loeb Mainstage, entitled The Space Between. Unlike that work, which made heavy use of various forms of multimedia, Calla told us that Untitled Project is more of a simple, text-based piece, which she feels is the most meaningful to her as an audience member. Without giving away too much about this unique theater experience, Calla emphasized fluidity and spontaneity as some of the most prominent aspects of the show. In fact, while Calla conceived the original idea for Untitled Project, her cast of actors wrote much of the actual script during the rehearsal process. Calla also mentioned that audience feedback would be crucial in the creation process, and that the story might change entirely by the time the show continues its run in New York.

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What Really Goes On In Harvard Labs

Posted by The Voice Staff on April 29, 2010 at 6:59 pm

HOLD THE PHONE — Harvard Med School students produced a Lady GaGa video titled…wait for it, Lab Romance.

Prepare yourself for the nerdiest video of all time. We especially enjoyed the pan shots of the glowing petri dishes. Very GaGa.

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The Bee’s Knees Begs “Please”

Posted by The Voice Staff on April 27, 2010 at 9:34 pm

Yeah, something like that.

According to several undisclosed sources–

The Bee Club (for freshmen: it’s a female final club) is in trouble. The club emailed male members of final clubs today asking for donations. The reason? The Chabad offered The Fly Club for Gentlemen $6 million for the house on 45 Dunster Street, which they currently rent out to The Bee.

According to the sources, the sale is still up in the air. Some say the sale is highly unlikely, as Fly alumni have daughters in The Bee Club.

But to sum up the irony for you: some of the richest girls on campus are begging rich boyz for money. DISCUSS.

Addendum: Note witty title and appreciate.

EDIT: These are not confirmed facts. If you have any more information regarding the topic, you can email thehvoicemail@gmail.com. Check back for more updates.

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Procrastination Station


DEY RAPIN ERRYBODY OUT HERE

International Testimonials For The Voice

"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 Harvard Crimson

"Zeitungsmacher"
--Die Presse


OTHER MENTIONS: Huffington Post, New York Magazine

Masthead

President, Editor In Chief, Alisha Ramos '12
Executive Editor, Liyun Jin '12
Features Director, Qichen Zhang '12
Voiceover Director, Sara Plana '12
Lifestyle Director, Henry Woodward-Fisher '12
The Dish Director, Charlotte Austin '11
Web Director, Ingrid Pierre '12
Associate Web Directors
Kathleen French '13
Graham Simpson '13
Director of Photography, Emily Xie '12
Associate Photographers
Nikki Anderson '10
Caroline Lowe '12
Sasha Mironov '13
Alex Savona '12
Grace Sun '12
Colin Teo '12
Staff Writers
Suzanna Bobadilla '13
Crystal Coser '12
Philip Gingerich '13
Kathleen French '13
Liyun Jin '12
Michelle Nguyen '13
John Paul Jones '12
Stephanie O'Connell '13
Molly O'Donnell '12
Ingrid Pierre '12
Ricardo Garcia-Rojas '13
Dustin Poore '12
Lexi Ross '13
April Sperry '13
Casey Thomson '13
Bella Wang '12
Bonnie Cao '12
Design Director, Melissa Wong '12
Social Director, Katie McNicol '12
Co-Directors of Business Operations, Margarita Krivitski '11, Brian Shen '11