Marbella Marlo

Feb 15, 2024 | harvardindependent.com | Marbella Marlo

Around this time last February, my eyes sprung open as the morning light flooded my 10 ft. x 10 ft. dorm room. Icy wind chilled the side of my body through the window I intentionally placed next to the head of my bed and cracked open as far as dorm regulations would allow. I hated shades, I hated stuffy air, and I loved the daily invasion of sunlight and winter breeze preceding my morning alarm each day.

Dec 8, 2023 | harvardindependent.com | Noah Tavares |Piper Tingleaf |Marbella Marlo |Layla Chaaraoui

BY JORDAN WASSERBERGER ’27 Hello Indy reader! For those of you who have listened to the Excelsior podcast, it’s nice to see you again—in writing this time—and please enjoy this deep dive into your favorite podcast. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, now’s your chance to rectify that. Let’s […]

Dec 7, 2023 | harvardindependent.com | Marbella Marlo

Last year, Elon Musk experimented with our sacred trust in social media authenticity. He took the blue check, which has monopolized our faith in abstract virtual spaces over the past decade, and made it available for purchase. For only $8. With the departure of a streamlined authentication process came the arrival of numerous impersonated celebrities, athletes, and businesses.

Oct 12, 2023 | harvardindependent.com | Marbella Marlo |Noah Tavares

Dear Harvard Independent Readers,As conversations surrounding the conflict in Israel and Palestine continue to escalate on campus, we must recognize our positions as both Harvard students and human beings, and the role we play in public discourse. Over the past decade we have reported on students organizing with respect to Israel and Palestine. Our reporting work has shed light on student perspectives and experiences, and started important discussions around the conflict.

Oct 12, 2023 | harvardindependent.com | Marbella Marlo

In his Magnum Opus The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes the disillusioning, misguided, and ultimately self-fulfilling story of young adults in postwar France and Spain. He narrates their exorbitant lives filled with drinking, surface-level relationships, and the unsatiated pursuit of wealth. Residue from World War I—in both the gross disregard for human life for an arguably political outcome as well as the precedent-driven “return to normalcy” policy coined by President Warren G.