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.

Struck an epiphany while packing…

And you never have any idea how it happened.

Here is some cuteness. Just because.

Source: Waffle Muffin / Via: F*** Yeah Felines!

UGA gives Yale a run for its money for Most Embarrassing Orientation Video Ever. I mean…red polos? Ke$ha?

Are you 4serious?

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.

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!

If you’re going to “officially license” our name, you could at least give credit where it’s due.

I’M JUST SAYING.

[EDIT: order has been restored] (Read more…)

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.

Hi everyone! Hope your summers have been grand so far.

Some of you may have noticed that the submission process for Harvard FML is a bit different now. Instead of typing in your FML on the home page, you must now go to a submit page.

Although we realize this may cause some inconvenience on behalf of our readers, our previous method of collecting submissions was a bit glitchy (it was cutting off submissions, not processing submissions all together, etc.) so we had to resort to a separate submit page.

If you’re a computer whiz and can help us figure out a simple way of returning it to the old process of submission-through-homepage, shoot us an email at thehvoicemail@gmail.com.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Eric Balderas ’13 was four years old when he crossed the border. He was detained at a Texas airport this week and, according to the Boston Globe, is currently facing deportation to Mexico.

On Monday, he was detained when he tried to board a plane Boston (where he planned on doing research over the summer). Eric said he had lost his Mexican passport and instead tried to board using his Harvard ID. He was able to board a plane the next day but he awaits a trial in front of an immigration judge.

The Globe notes that our fellow Harvardian was arrested a year after Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard president, urged Congress to support the Dream Act, which would allow immigrant youths to apply for residency (it is a six-year-long conditional path to citizenship after they have completed two years of higher education toward a degree or completed two years of military service). Working off this angle a friend of Eric made a Facebook Support page urging immigration officials to let Eric stay in the only place he can really call home; the page is justly titled Keep Eric Home.

(Video by Daniel Garber ‘13. Accessed May 26th, 2010.)

For someone like me, the phrase “Annenberg card-swiper” conjures up frightening, embarrassing and (slightly) painful memories of being turned away at the door for having forgotten my Harvard University ID for the umpteenth time. For Nolan Pollock ‘13, however, an Annenberg card-swiper named Francine inspires romantic verses.

Earlier this month, attendees of Annenberg’s hot breakfast were treated to an impassioned and dramatic recitation of Nolan’s 4th-winning entry in the Harvard Slam Poetry Competition, entitled “Oh, Francine!” Nolan stood atop a table, bathed in the yellow light of ‘Berg’s Harry-Potter-esque chandeliers, looked into the eyes of Francine and sang her praises in a way that would make Shakespeare proud.

Here are Voice’s favorite parts, even though pretty much every line is quotable.

“As I wait in line for my chance to dine,
All I can think about is making her mine
[...]

Oh, Francine!
For you, I must stop and thank the Dean
You’re like something out of a magazine
When you swipe my card, it’s almost obscene!
[...]

How can you resist my youthful zeal?
What do I have to do? Get down and kneel? (cute kneeling action)
YOU are an orange that I must peel!
[...]

This is not some emotional lie
Know that I am your guy!
I think about you always, in PhySci
I think about you always, in LifeSci
I think about you always, and inside.

Oh, Francine!
YOU, are my Annenberg dream.”

Awwww <3 The procrastination bit is a very nice touch. Extra brownie points for keepin’ it real.

In his response to Voice, Nolan expresses that his biggest fear was “to lose the crowd’s attention,” and he was relieved to find that everyone loved it. Nolan wrapped up his poem amid maddening applause from the ‘Berg crowd. The reaction of Francine herself was priceless. “She gave me a great big hug and a kiss afterward and was apparently talking about it to staff members all day. She even asked for a copy of the poem to show to her kids,” Nolan recalls. I can testify to this because by dinnertime that day, Oh Francine!-related chatters still abounded among HUDS staff in the servery. Also, Facebook reports that Nolan, who is a member of the Harvard Heavyweight Crew, is single, in case anyone was wondering.

Everybody loves a random, cute act of romance in Annenberg. (Remember the dude who asked his girlfriend to the Snow Ball from the balcony, complete with giant poster boards? Those kids are still nauseatingly in love, much to the chagrin of their lovelorn and cynical blockmates. JK!) And this act deserves to go into the history book of the Class of 2013. (Sex on the balcony, proposals from the balcony and slam poetry atop a ‘Berg table. It is a tough job keeping up with this class.)

Voice approves! <3 Almost makes me wish I could wake up in time for breakfast every once in a while.

ETA: The original version of this post misstated the owner of the Youtube video to be Daniel Goldhaber ‘13. My apologies to both Daniels! I blame the 102 degree weather. I really do.