Humans of Harvard College Podcast David Chen

“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 I was on my phone, I wouldn’t have noticed that.  I wouldn’t have been there to experience it and gain the information that it carried. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, it matters how you’re doing it.”

Join our host David Chen as we sit down with Claudia Cabral, a senior at Harvard College, for another episode in A NEW SEASON of the Humans of Harvard College Podcast.

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“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 lot of people are in mental cages and I feel like I was in a mental cage for awhile, thinking I had to live a certain way. ”Join our host David Chen as we sit down with Trevor Barrant, a senior at Harvard College, for another episode of the Humans of Harvard College Podcast.Hosted by David Chen
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“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.

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Produced by Mira Becker and Chelsea Guo

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Music by Alex Youn

“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, in religion, in health. But in the end I always have the same question, why is different important? Why does difference matter? Well, at least I know now that that’s my problem.”

Join our host David Chen as we sit down with Ana Luiza Nicolae, a junior at Harvard College, for another episode of the Humans of Harvard College Podcast.

Check out Ana's work here: https://harvardindependent.com/author/ana-luiza-nicolae/

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Produced by Mira Becker and Chelsea Guo
Design by Meiyi Yan
Music by Alex Youn

"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 junior at Harvard College, for another episode of the Humans of Harvard College Podcast.

If you want to see more of Tram's work, check out her project, Converse Together: https://www.facebook.com/conversetogether

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Produced by Mira Becker and Chelsea Guo
Design by Meiyi Yan
Music by Alex Youn

“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.

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Produced by Mira Becker and Chelsea Guo
Design by Meiyi Yan
Music by Alex Youn