“I remember watching this guy (at the T) playing the guitar and…this guy was doing more to help every single person in that station than anyone else, just by singing his heart out. I was actually tearing up, just listening to him. He is just raising, elevating, the vibration of this whole place, the vibration of love. Just because he was being authentic, I was amazed. He’s doing more work to heal everyone in this place than the doctors that think they’re better than everyone going from station to station. That was so powerful to see. I think all this comes from being present in the moment. If ..read more

“Creativity is something I value to the highest degree. Music was always something, in my family, that was super big. Like I said, I grew up in church, black church, music is the thing. So I was always doing music, I love music, I listen to music all the time. I love art, too. I can’t draw, I can’t paint, but I appreciate it. What I want to be able to do is give kids the opportunity to cultivate that. For me, what I notice…especially even going here and observing certain things is that even though…nobody is necessarily making anybody do anything. But because of the social norms that we have a ..read more

“I would speak up and speak out about things that I did not mess with. And people were not used to that. People were used to experiencing things, seeing things on Harvard’s campus and just shutting up about it. And that’s not how I was raised. That’s not what New Orleans taught me. If I saw a problem I would call it out. At the same time, I also value discussions about things. I value having diversity of opinions.” Join our host David Chen as we sit down with Samyra Miller, a senior at Harvard College, for another episode of the Humans of Harvard College Podcast. Hosted by David Chen Produced ..read more

“I had a professor here at Harvard teaching the history of energy. Unrelated, one class he shows up and he like ‘today, each of you around this table are going to tell the group what your core problem is.’ And until that moment I never realized what mine was, but when I was forced to say it I was like, yeah mine is inequality. How can anything be found as a basis for saying that two people are not on the same level. How can we justify attributing different values for different people. Of course, there are so many reasons to want to do that, in legal terms, in philosophical terms, in morality ..read more

"If you know any ethnic grandparents…sometimes they talk to themselves, but sometimes you sit down to actually have a conversation with them and they tell you these amazing stories about how they grew up. And for [my grandmother], a large part of her experience was growing up during the Vietnam War: what it was like to raise my father, her stories of how she became vegetarian. All these things…I was just blown away the way I was able to live through her, through her stories, and feel this sense of empathy and compassion towards her." Join our host David Chen as we sit down with Tram Nguyen, a ..read more

“The really funny part is that I came to Harvard and I was shot by a CIA agent. I came to Harvard and remember looking at the OCS website that posts a lot of job postings. I remember seeing an internship position for the CIA. I was like ‘how funny is this that I got shot by a CIA agent and one of my friends might intern at the CIA.’” Join our host David Chen as we sit down with Ece Hakim, a Senior at Harvard College, for another episode of the Humans of Harvard College Podcast. Hosted by David Chen Produced by Mira Becker and Chelsea Guo Design by Meiyi Yan Music by Alex Youn ..read more

“I think I stopped being a Youtuber years ago. I think I stopped when I took a gap year. Up to that point, I was trying to…not “live an influencer life”…but I was really doing this that were career-oriented for social media. I realize over the year off that a function YouTube can play in my life is a secondary function where I’d be doing and thinking the same things if it weren’t for YouTube. That’s how I want it to be. I want to be reading a lot anyways. If I make a video about it, cool, but that’s auxiliary. I’m reading because it’s valuable, I’m not reading to make a video. Join our host Da ..read more

Check out more of Simar's work here: https://doctorinprogress.com/ Check out Simar's Podcast! http://thatmedicnetwork.com/podcast Here's the link for feedback :) https://forms.gle/aopTPrAHwq7Hfk8J9 “It was just remarkable what [my uncle] told me. Medicine doesn’t care who’s good or who’s bad. It treats anyone and everyone because they’re human. That’s sort of what the essence of medicine is founded upon. It’s do no harm, not do no harm to some and harm to others…you don’t get to choose. It was this paragon of equality that really inspired towards medicine. I was like ‘oh my gosh I want to be j ..read more

Check out more of Brandon's work here: https://linktr.ee/BrandonKingdollar Here's the link for feedback :) https://forms.gle/aopTPrAHwq7Hfk8J9 “It’s just hard to make these kind of relationships when everyone is trying to put a value on you. I want to make deep intimate friendships. I don’t want these surface-level acquaintanceships, they’re okay I guess.  I want someone I can spill my soul to. I want someone I can talk to at 3 in the morning and they’ll listen—and I’ll do the same for them. And I feel like it’s hard to get those at Harvard especially just because of how concerned with st ..read more

“The reason why I love the Avatar the Last Airbender so much is because it’s so deeply tied to my childhood…I tie it a lot to my relationship with my brother. Avatar the Last Airbender is what we watched everyday…as presents for moving up a new belt in Taekwondo he and I would get the new ATLA book and share it. It teaches so many life lessons, but in a way that is understandable to a young audience.” Join our host David Chen as we sit down with Hannah Kim, a first-year student at Harvard College, for another episode of the Humans of Harvard College Podcast. We talk about ATLA, fashion tips, f ..read more